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caster county, Pa., by Mr. Vincent Barnard, and still another at 

 Eaglesmere, Sullivan county, Pa. ( Warren's Report)."^ 



12, Stercorarius parasiticus {Lm^.). Parasitic Jaeger, 



Breeding Range — Arctic regions. 



Winter Distribution — Southward to coast of New Jersey. 



Rare straggler on the New Jersey coast. 



One was shot at Atlantic City by a fisherman in the winter of 

 1891-2 and reported at a meeting of the D. V. O. C. by Mr. J. F. 

 Brown. 



Family Laridse— The Gulls and Terns. 



Eighteen species of this family have been reported on the New 

 Jersey coast or on the large rivers. The only ones, however, which 

 occur regularly are the Black-headed Gull, Common Tern and Least 

 Tern, all of which were formerly abundant breeders, and the Herring 

 Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Bonaparte's Gull, Forster's Tern and Black 

 Tern, the first two of which are winter visitants and the otiiers tran- 

 sients. Of the rare visitants the Kittiwake, Black-backed Gull and 

 Arctic Tern are stragglers from the north, while the Caspian, Gull- 

 billed, Royal, Trudeau's, Cabot's, Roseate and Sooty Terns are 



13, Rissa tridactyla (Linn.). Kittiwake. 



Breeding Range — Arctic regions. 



Winter Distribution — Southward to New Jersey and Great Lakes. 



Very rare winter visitant on the New Jersey coast. One or two 

 specimens have been shot during the past few years at Atlantic City, 

 N. J., and a specimen was exhibited by Mr. C. A. Voelker at a 

 meeting of the D. V. 0. C, which was reported to have been taken 

 by a gunner in the interior of New Jersey in November, 1893. 



* The specimen recorded by Turnbull as shot below Philadelphia by John 

 Krider seems doubtful, as Krider says in his Field Notes, p. 79, that he shot 

 into a ilock of Black-bellied Plover, and, upon picking up the dead birds, found 

 one of them to be a Pomarine Jaeger ! It would seem hardly likely to have 

 been a Jaeger at all. 



