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MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 



has a longer tail. The bill is dark and not bright red tipped with black as in the 

 Common Tern. Some of its cries are especially characteristic. The " cloth- 

 tearing " cry is easily recognized and especially the rather sweet double note sug- 

 gestive of the call of the Ring-neck Plover, which at times is shortened and 

 roughened so that it sounds like chivy. I have tried again and again to see a 

 roseate tint in the breast of this bird as it flies by, but have not yet succeeded. 



I have great hopes that this and other species of terns will return to the upper 

 beach and dunes at Ipswich to breed as they did fifty years ago. 



31 [74] Sterna antillarum (Less.). 

 Least Tern. 



Accidental visitor; formerly summer resident. 



On July II, 1914, I identified two individuals of this species in a large flock 

 of terns at Ipswich Beach. 



32 [75] Sterna fuscata Linn. 

 Sooty Tern. 

 Accidental visitor from the South. 



33 [77] Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis (Gmel.) 

 Black Tern. 



Not uncommon transient visitor. June 7; July 19 to September 16. 



My July 19 record is of a bird at Ipswich Beach, in 1914, in full black plum- 

 age. I saw another bird in the full nuptial plumage on August 27, 1910. With 

 these exceptions the birds seen were all in the immature winter plumage. 



[86] Fulmarus glacialis glacialis (Linn.). Fulmar; "Noddy"; " M.-^rbleheader " ; 

 " Oil-bird."— As yet no definite record for this bird. 



34 [89] Puffinus gravis (O'Reilly). 

 Greater Shearwater ; " Hagdon " ; " Haglet " ; " Hag " ; " Gray Hag." 



Common summer visitor ofif the coast. May to October 12. 



Many of these birds must pass our coast on their way to and from their 

 breeding-grounds in the southern hemisphere, but they are rarely or never seen 



