3/8 LARID^. : JAEGERS, GULLS, TERNS, ETC. 



Grand Menan and Campobello Island, and that they 

 were seen at St. Andrews, at the head of Passamaquoddy • 

 Bay. On the same date, while sailing some ten miles 

 from shore off Saco, Maine, I saw a single bird, undoubt- 

 edly of this species, flying rapidly along the surface of 

 the water. 



" Is it not a little strange that a bird that has escaped 

 our obscFvation for years, should appear so suddenly, 

 and at various points along the coast from Cape Cod to 

 the Bay of Fundy .■* " 



The foregoing is the notice given by Mr. Ruthven 

 Deane in Bull. Nutt. Club, iv, 1879, p. 242. But he 

 overlooks Prof. Emmons's record of 1833, where the 

 bird is marked as a breeder on the Massachusetts coast. 

 Both Linsley and Emmons were probably correct, though 

 the former's record for Connecticut is disallowed by Dr. 

 Merriam. 



Dr. Brewer remarks : " Prof. Baird, in a letter dated 

 August 23, informs me that, having occasion to visit 

 Woods' Holl (Falmouth, Mass.), a few days previous, he 

 saw there a young example of RJiynchops nigra, which 

 had been shot at that place on the 19th of that month, 

 by a son of Rev. Dr. Hiram Carleton, an Episcopal min- 

 ister, resident in the village. This example is to be 

 presented to the New England collection of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History " (Bull. Nutt. Club, iv, 1879, 

 p. 243). Dr. Brewer also gives the same case in Pr. 

 Bost. Soc, XX, 1879, p. 277. In the same number of 

 the Bulletin, a few pages back (p. 227), I find that Mr. 

 Scott says of it, on Long Beach, N. J., " This is appar- 

 ently the northern limit of the breeding range of this 

 species, and everywhere they are rather rare. I first 

 saw them on the loth of June, and do not think they 



