1018 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. iroir. 



1877. Saundeks, II. [On the Occurrence of the Pauay Sooty Tern, Sterna antestheta, 

 in Groat Britain. ] < P. Z. 5., Fel). 6, 1877, p. 43. 



1877. Saundkhs, H. [Remarks on Exhibition of a Specimen of Sterna aleutica from 

 Alaska. ] <P.Z.S., Nov. 20, 1877, p. 754. 



1877. Sauxdeus, H. Reports on the Collections of Birds made during the Voyage of 

 H. M. S. ' Challenger.'— No. V. On the Laridaj collected during the Expedi- 

 tion. < r. Z. S., Nov. 20, 1877, pp. 794-800. 



Eemaiks on 17 spp., with special rcfi-i-ence to geographical distribution. "On the whole 

 this collectiou of Laridce, although smaU in numbers, is one of the most productive of knowl- 

 edge which has yet been made by any of our national expeditions." 



1877. [Scott, W. E. D.] Terns. < The Country, i, Dec. 1, 1877, p. 67. 



Observations and data concerning the Steminm of the U. S. Atlantic Coast. 



1878. Allen, J. A. Sabine's Gull [Xenia sabinii] in Maine. < Bull. Nutt. Ornith. 



Club, iii. No. 4, Oct., 1878, p. 195. 



Only other Xew England record for this species is found in Am. Sportsman, v, 1875, p. 370; 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, svii, 1875, p. 449. 

 1878. Ballou, W. H. Ad<litions to the Avi-fauna of Illinois. < The Oologist, iv. No. 

 4, June, 1878, p. 32. 

 Stercorariits huffoni. 

 1878. Benner, F. The gulls of New York Bay. <T/(e Country, i, Jan. 5, 1878, p. 133. 

 1878. B[REWER], T. M. Saunders on the Larina;. < Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, iii. No. 

 4, Oct., 1878, pp. 185-187. 

 Review of the paper in P. Z. S., Feb. 5, 1878, pp. 155-212. 

 1878. Brewer, T. M. The Skua Gull (Stercorarius catarractes) on the Coast of Massa- 

 chusetts. < Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, iii. No. 4, Oct., 1878, p. 188. 



A suspicious statement that this is the first recorded Instance of its occuireuce in "any 

 part of Xorth America other than Greenland". (Of. Lawr. in Baird's B. N. A., 1858, p. 838; 

 "California".) 

 1878. Brewster, W. The Short-tailed Tern (Hydrochelidon tissipes) in Massachu- 

 setts. < Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, iii, No. 4, Oct., 1878, p. 190. 

 Its common occurrence, where it had been consideted a rare visitor. 



1878. Collins, W. H. Notes on the Nesting of the Black Tern [Hydrochelidon lari- 



formis], at St. Clair Flats, Mich[igan]., June 7, 1878. < The Oologist, iv, 



No. 4, June, 1878, p. 26. 

 1878. COUES, E. Mr. H. Saunders on the Steruinse. <C Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, iii. 



No. 3, 1878, pp. 140-142. 

 Favorable review of the paper in P. Z. S., 1876, pp. 638-672 ; presenting also a synonymatic 



synopsis of the 17 North American species, according to the author reviewed. 



1878. Deane, R. The Sooty Tern [Sterna fuligiuosa] in New Hamp.shire. < Bull. 

 NutL Ornith. Club, iii, No. 4, Oct., 1878, p. 195. 



Its first recorded occurrence in that Stat*, thougli well liuowu as a l>ird of Massachusetts, 

 Connecticut, and Eliode I.sland. 



1878. [Editorial.] Instinct in Birds. <^ T7ie Cohh^;-^, ii. July 6, 187r!, p. 168. 



Remarks upon an anecdote of "instinct " in a Gull. 

 1878. Feildex, H. W. [Letter on the occurrence of Rhodostethia rosea in the Novaya 

 Zemlya Sea.] </6/s, 4th ser., ii, Apr., 1878, pp. 200, 201. 



Shot by Julius Payer, summer of 1873; Of. Engli.sh ed. of Netv Lands within Arctic Circle, 

 ii, p. 91. 



1878. Gaetke, H. [Letter on the occurrence of Larusaffinis in Heligoland. ] <^Ibi8, 

 4th ser., ii, Oct., 1878, p. 489. 



1878. Rowley, G. D. Larus tridactylus. (The Kittiwake Gull.; <^ Howl. Orn. Misc., 

 iii, pt. xiv, May, 1878, pp. 233-236, pi. cxi. 



