52 REPOET OF NEW JEESEY STATE MUSEUM. 



specimen taken many years ago labeled New Jersey. Mr. Chapman^ 

 states that several have been killed on the lower Hudson Eiver, and 

 Mr. J. Eichardson^ reports one at Sing Sing, while Messrs. Stackpole 

 and Wiegman^ saw two, from ten to twenty-five miles off Long Branch, 

 December 31st, 1904. 



47 Larus marinus Linnaeus. 

 Great Black-backed Gull. 



Adults. — Length, 28-31. Wing, 18-19.50. Bacl? and wings, blackish slate ; 

 rest of plumage, white ; wing feathers with white tips. 



Young in first tcinter. — Similar to the young Herring Gull, but darker. 



A rather rare, but regular, winter visitant along the coast, appar- 

 ently more plentiful off New York Harbor than farther south. It is 

 mentioned by Turnbull as not uncommon, and Scott found it quite 

 common in the winter of 1876-7 at Long Beach. I have the follow- 

 ing records, although many other specimens have been shot : 



Cape May county (probably Five Mile Beach) ; three seen, one 

 shot : January 29th, 1879. Dr. W. L. Abbott.^ 



Atlantic City; two seen during blizzard, March 13th, 1888. S. N. 

 Ehoads.^ 



Tuckerton; March, 189-1; one shot by Mr. Jillson.* 



Tuckerton; February 1st, 1896; several seen. Mr. Jillson.® 



Stone Harbor; January 11th, 1901; one shot."^ 



Anglesea; February 5th, 1904.^ 



Krider states that he shot one at Barnegat, and has seen specimens 

 shot on the Delaware,® and Mr. C. G. Abbott saw one on Overpeck 

 Creek, Leonia,^" February 26th, 1905. 



^ Birds of the Vicinity N. Y. City, p. 135. 

 = Abst. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., 1890, p. 2. 

 ' Bird Lore, 1905, pp. 27, 28. 



* Stone, Birds of E. Pa. and N. J., p. 4.3. 

 ' Auk, 1888, p. 318. 



' Rhoads Abst. Proc. D. V. O. C, II., p. 20. 

 ' Stone, Cassinia, 1901, p. 45. 



* Cassinia, 1904, p. 54. 

 « Field Notes, p. 79. 



^"Abst. Linn. Soc, N. Y., XVII., p. 7. 



