C H. Merrlam — Birds of Connecticut. 1:3:3 



individual of tliis l)c';uitiful species of sj^ull, August 1st, 1842." (p. 

 ■_'71.) 1 saw the remains of one tliat liad l)een kille<l in November, 

 1875, near New llnven. Specimens of it are also in the collections 

 of W. W. Coe and J. H. Sage of Portland, Conn., and Mr. Wm. F. 

 Lane sends me a specimen from Wallingford, Conn., slating that 

 eight were seen there in the fall of 1874, 



NoTE.^ — The Burgomaster [Lams glaucus Briinnich) may some- 

 times occuj- along our coast as a rare winter visitant from the North, 

 hut I have, as yet, been unable to procure satisfactory evidence of its 

 presence within our limits, although it has been taken on Long Island. 



274- Sterna hirundo Auct. Common Tem; Wilson's Tern; Sea Swallow. 



A common summer resident along the coast. Ca})tain Brooks 

 informs me that they breed at Goose Island, Conn., but not so abun- 

 dantly as the Roseate. 



275. Sterna macroura Naumann. Arctic Tern. 



A rare visitor to our shores. Mr. J. N. Clark, of Saybrook, Conn., 

 writes me: "I have an undoubted specimen, in the fall plumage of the 

 young (as described by Coues), taken here last season — never caj)- 

 tured a mature bird." 



276. Sterna Dougalli Mont. (5^. jmmdisea of Anthors.)* Roseate Tern. 



An abundant summer resident. Captain Brooks writes me that 

 they first "make their appearance about the middle of May, and 

 commence laying about the first of June, at Goose Island (one mile 

 west of Faulkner's Island, Conn.), where they breed in great quan- 

 tities, if not disturbed." Through the kindness of Captain Brooks I 

 have recently (June 29, 1877) visited Goose Island, and have thus 

 been permitted to witness the magnificent aerial evolutions of these 

 beautiful birds, as hundreds of them swept to and fro over our heads, 

 constantly uttering their cliaracteristic cries. They would rise high 

 in the air and immediately <live to the water's edge, then, suddenly 

 turning, would sweep over the island and settle on the large rocks with 

 Avhich it is bordered, always, as the Captain remarked, "keeping their 

 heads to the wind'ard," It is truly a si)len(lid flight, and one well 

 worth going many miles to see. As they cover the rocks, almost 



* See Coues' Birds of the Northwest, p. 688, 18U. 



