** 1916 J Norton, Notes on some Maine Birds. 377 



Larus hyperboreus. Glaucous Gull. — The latest previous spring 

 record of this Gull on the Maine coast appears to have been April 27, 1883,^ 

 a specimen taken at Peak's Island. 



On June 3, 1915, a specimen in nearly adult winter plumage, with moult 

 to summer plumage conspicuous, was taken near Richmond's Island, Me. 

 The bird was with a flock of Herring Gulls. 



With the latter, it came for fish dressings and in feeding seemed far more 

 savage or voracious. While the Herring Gulls merely paused in their flight 

 and snatched the floating matter from the surface, and continued on the 

 wing, the Glaucous Gull mentioned pounced heavily down, into the water, 

 seizing the food, and with wings raised in a belligerent manner, facing its 

 companions, gulped the matter on the water, and then rose to seek 

 more. 



It was a barren bird and w^ould probably have spent much of the season 

 well south of its breeding range. 



Larus leucopterus. Iceland Gull. — On May 20, 1915, at the same 

 place where the last species was taken, a female of the present species 

 was taken. The bii-d which was not fully adult was slowly moulting from 

 winter to summer plumage. 



My earliest fall record is November 12 (1904) at Portland Harbor. 



Larus minutus. Little Gull. — A specimen of the Little Gull was 

 taken about a mile southeast of Mosquito Island, St. George, Me., August 

 12, 1904. It is an adult male, in nuptial plumage, with slight traces of 

 post nuptial moult showing in the head; primaries much worn. 



The chagrin of having overlooked this bird's identity, and forgetting, 

 through the inconvenience of moving, to examine it, is somewhat offset by 

 the satisfaction of having personally taken so rare a specimen in my native 

 town. This furnishes two records for the State.- 



The bird was alone, hovering over a raft of decomposing seaweed that 

 had lain some weeks on a shore and become filled with maggots (no doubt 

 of the beach Hy, Ccelopa frigida) and then floated away. The bird had 

 maggots in its stomach. 



Sterna dougalli. Roseate Tern. — To the list of Maine specimens 

 summarized in 1913,' may be added one more record. Mr. Everett Smith 

 and I were at Bluff Island May 29, 1914, and saw and watched for some 

 time three Roseate Terns. They were constantly chasing each other, 

 high in the air, most of the time over the island, but occasionally flying 

 out over the water considerably lower than when over the land. It was 

 too early to have had eggs, as but one tern's egg was seen on the island on 

 this clay. 



Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis. Black Tern. — Though the 



11883. Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. CI., VIII, 186. This is loosely credited to Knight 

 in the recent Bull. 292, U. S. Dept. Agri., 24. 

 2 1910. Norton, Auk, XXVII: 447-450. 

 3 1913. Norton, Auk, XXX: 574. 



