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that Wetmore collected Apr. 18, 1923. The specimen is in too poor 

 condition to be aged accurately, but it was in an immature plumage. 



On Mar. 31, 1967, Hackman collected a wing (USNM 497294) from 

 a badly decayed carcass of an adult glaucous gull found near the end 

 of the overrun runway on Sand Island, Midway Atoll. 



Specimens have been collected previously on Kauai and Maui 

 (Henshaw, 1902), Laysan (Bailey, 1956), and Lanai (Munro, 1944), 

 and sight records have been reported from Midway (Kenyon and Rice, 

 1957). No glaucous gulls have been reported previously from Kure. 

 The specimen from Midway listed above is the first reported from 

 that island. 



The glaucous gull is a circumpolar breeder that winters as far south 

 in the Pacific as California, Japan, and northern China (AOU, 1957). 



Franklin's Gull Larus pipixcan 



Amerson found the remains of a Franklin's gull near the runway on 

 Tern Island, French Frigate Shoals, Aug. 4, 1965 (USNM 496203). 

 Judging from the markings on the primaries and from the coloration 

 and condition of the other wing feathers, the gull had been molting 

 into adult plumage when it died. 



The only other records from the Hawaiian area are a specimen from 

 Maui, two sight records from Oahu, and an adult taken two miles off 

 Kauai (King, 1959b). 



This species breeds in northwestern North America from south- 

 eastern Alberta to South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. It winters 

 along the Pacific coast of Central and South America and along the 

 coast of the Gulf of Mexico (AOU, 1957). 



Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tritlactyla 



On Dec. 24, 1964, two adults and one immature were seen at Green 

 Island, Kure Atoll. The immature, a female in first winter plumage 

 (USNM 494296), was found injured on the beach Dec. 30, 1964, and 

 was collected by Stadel and Kepler. On Mar. 29, 1967, another speci- 

 men (USNM 497296), the remains of a mummified carcass of an adult 

 bird, was collected on Green Island by Hackman. Hackman had seen 

 another adult black-legged kittiwake flying over the island the pre- 

 vious day. 



In March 1965 the remains of three black-legged kittiwakes were 

 found on Pearl and Hermes Reef. Two, an adult in winter plumage 

 (USNM 496205) and the wing of an immature bird (USNM 497375), 

 were found on Southeast Island on March 15. The remains of the third 

 kittiwake, an immature (USNM 496206), were found on Grass 

 Island on March 19. Neither of the remains of the two immature 



