374 LARIDvE : JAEGERS, GULLS, TERNS, ETC. 



was killed as far inland as the northwest corner of 

 Massachusetts ('near the Hoosac River'), in Septem- 

 ber, 1876 (Am. Nat., xi, 1877, p. 243). Mr. Fred. T. 

 Jencks, of Providence, R. I., writes me that he took a 

 particularly beautiful specimen at Point Judith, R. I., 

 last fall. Two adult birds killed themselves last Sep- 

 tember, by flying against the light-house tower at Falk- 

 ner's Island. One of them is now in the collection of 

 Capt. O. N. Brooks of that place. Mr. Elbert Coe, of 

 Stony Creek, Conn., has a mounted specimen which 

 was killed there with a stone, late in the summer (1876). 

 Mr. Norman Elmore, of Granby, Conn., has just sent 

 me, for examination, a bird of this species that was 

 taken in that vicinity, Sept. 20, 1876. The Rev. J. 

 Howard Hand writes me that it was procured in a sin- 

 gular place and manner. ' It was knocked down with 

 a stick by a gentleman who was netting Wild Pigeons. 

 He first saw it, I think, on the pigeon poles. He got 

 it alive, but of course could not get it to eat, and after 

 keeping it two or three days it died.' This, and the 

 one killed by Elbert Coe, Esq., are both in the young- 

 of-the-year plumage described by Coues. It is a sin- 

 gular fact that all these specimens were killed last fall, 

 and probably all in September" (Rev. B. Conn., 1877, 

 p. 134). There was evidently an irruption of the birds 

 into New England that fall. Mr. Allen's summary of 

 these records makes six Connecticut cases, one for 

 Rhode Island, and two for Massachusetts (Bull. Essex 

 Inst., x, 1878, p. 30). 



Mr. Deane records a remarkable case, of which he 

 says : " Through the kindness of Mr. Horace R. True, 

 I have recently examined an adult specimen of Sterna 

 fuliginosci) which was captured alive in the town of 



