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Family LARID^. Gulls and Terns. 

 Genus GAVIA Boie. 



3. (3'J). Gavia alba {Gunn.). Ivory Gull. 



A specimen has been taken by Mr. Boardman at Grand Menan, 

 New Brunswick, and hence it is accorded a place in this part of 

 the list, although it has no claim as a bird of the state and is not 

 likely to be taken within our limits. 



Genus LARUS Liunfeus. 



4. (45). Larus kumlieni Brewst. Kumlien's Gull. 



Probably a regular winter visitor to the state, and doubtless 

 commoner than would seem possible from the few reports received 

 concerning it. Mr. Harry Merrill of Bangor has a specimen of 

 this bird, shot in the vicinity of Eastport and possibly in Maine 

 waters, although very near to the New Brunswick limits. This 

 species is also referred to in Smith's List of the Birds of Maine, in 

 the Forest and Stream for April 12, 1883, under the White-wiqged 

 Gull *of which Mr. Smith considers this bird a mere phase of 

 plumage. In a recent letter from Mr. Smith he says: "I have 

 examined a number of them in the flesh but have never shot them 

 here, although I have observed them alive in Portland Harbor and 

 at Scarboro." While this evidence is almost sufficient to give the 

 bird a place in the list, still there seems to be some slight tinge of 

 doubt that positively identified specimens have actually been taken 

 in the state, and until this is proved beyond a doubt it will have to 

 be assigned to the hypothetical list. 



Family PROCELLARIID^. Fulmars and Shearwaters. 



Genus FULMARUS Stephens. 



5. (86). Fulmarus glacialis (ii/ui.). Fulmar. 



This is reported as a winter seabird at Grand Menan, by Mr. 

 Boardman. It is also given in the A. O. U. List as occurring as 

 far south as New Jersey. While there is no reasonable doubt but 

 what it occurs as a winter visitor along the coast, yet there 

 have been no specimens recorded from the state. 



*Larus leucopterus Faber, or Iceland tiull. 



