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shiek — (H. W. Parker, Am. Nat., v, 187 1, 169): Johnson — (An- 

 derson); L,ee — (Currier, Praeger); L,inn — ( Baile3% Berry); Jack- 

 son — (Giddings); Mills — Pottawattamie — (Trostler); Sioux — 

 (Johnson); Woodbury — (Rich). 



13. (5S). Lanis airiciUa\J\\\\\. Laughing Gull. 



This gull is a southern species, rarely found as far north as 

 Iowa, in the interior. Thomas Say (Long's Exp., i, pp. 266-70), 

 notes '' Layjis ridibiaidus. Large flocks flying northward May 

 20, 1820." (Engineers' Cantonment). The species has been 

 reported from Omaha by L. Skow (Rev. Bds. Neb., 20). Dr. 

 Trostler reported the Laughing Gull as a "scarce migrant in 

 Pottawattamie and Mills counties. I have seen them frequently 

 at Big Lake and Manawa Lake (Pottawattamie), and along the 

 river in Mills county. One killed Oct. 10, 1894, at Blencoe, Iowa, 

 by H. W. Kerr (reported to me by J. A. Dickinson, of Grcsham, 

 Neb.)." 



14. (59). /.a;7('5/;-rt;//-//;// Sw. and Rich. Franklin Gull. 



The Franklin Gull is an inhabitant of the inland waters, and 

 has not been recorded from either coast. It appears to be a fre- 

 quent migrant in Iowa, according to nearl}' all observers, but it 

 is doubtful whether it breeds in Iowa at the present time. Col. N. 

 S. Goss (Bds. of Kan., 26) states: "They have been found breed- 

 ing as far south as northern Iowa. . . . one set of three eggs 

 taken May 20, 1885, by Mr. J. W. Preston, on Marsh Lake, 

 Minn." Keyes and Williams state that "Mr. J. W. Preston found 

 the species breeding at Heron Lake, Minn., a few miles from the 

 northern boundary of Iowa." Rev. P. B. Peabody (" Water 

 Birds of Heron Lake." Ool. xii., i, 1895, 16) says that "Though 

 the Franklin Gulls were present by the hundred all summer long, 

 increasing greatly in numbers during the autumn, not a nest was 

 found." G. H. Berry reports that the species was an abundant 

 summer resident at Spirit Lake in 1892 and 1893. 



County records: Cerro Gordo — "several killed at Clear Lake 

 in October, 1893; occasional summer visitor" (Richardson). Des 

 Moines — Aug. 3, 1892, Burlington (Bartsch). Hancock — " Crys- 

 tal Lake " (Halvorsen) " .saw four or five Oct. 16, 1894" (Ander- 

 son ) . Kossuth — ' ' transient ' ' ( Bingaman ) . Lee — ' 'connnon 



