LIST OF BIRDS. 



1. Colymbus liolboellii, HolboeWs Grebe. 



Rare winter visitor. Stratford, list of J. H, Liusley. 



2. Colymbus auritus. Horned Grebe. " Hell Diver.'''' 



Abuudaut winter resident. October to April. 



3. Podilymbus podiceps. Fied-billed Grebe. 



Common migrant. Housatouic JMver, September and Octo- 

 ber. 



4. Urinator imber. Loon. 



5. Urinator lumme. Red-throated Diver. 



Winter residents; but most common in migrations. Sep- 

 tember to May. ' 



6. Uria lomvia. BrunnicJi- s Murre. 



Irregular winter visitor. Abundant on the Sound in the 

 winter of 1890-91. See the writer in the Auk., Vol. viii., p. 307. 



Note. — Stercorarius parasiticus. Parasitic Jaeger, was given 

 by Linsley from Bridgeport on insufficient evidence. 



Note. — Rissa tridactyla, Kittmake (rull, probably occurs 

 as a rare winter resident. 



7. Larus marinus. Black-backed Gull. 



■ Winter resident. Not common. January 6, 1890. 



8. Larus argentatus smithsouianus. Common Gull. Her- 



ring Gull. 

 Abundant winter resident. 



9. Larus pbiladelpliia. Bonaparte's Gull. 



Migrant. Not rare. Perhaps winters. In large flocks April 

 21, 1888. 



Note.— Lai'us atricilla, Laiighinr/ Gull, was seen by the 

 writer, without doubt, August, 1878. 



10. Sterna hirundo. Conmion Tern. Wilsons Tern. 



Summer resident, breeding around eastern part of the 

 Sound. Recorded at Stratford by liin.xlej'. 



11. Sterna antillarum. Least Tern. 



Migrant. Taken at Stratford by Linsley, Not common. 

 Sterna dougalli, Boseate Tern, may occur in the same man- 

 ner as No. 10. 



