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Goshen Twp. The skin was mounted and placed in 

 Greystone hall (Sharpies MS.). 



8. Larus Philadelphia Bonaparte's Gull. Strag- 

 gler. Barnard lists it as very rare, and Warren 

 states that two or three specimens have been taken 

 along the Brandy wine. 



9. Gelochelidon nilotica Gull-billed Tern. Strag- 

 gler. H. B. Graves killed a specimen in autumn 

 (Warren, Birds Pa., 231). 



10. Sterna caspia Caspian Tern. Straggler. A 

 male and female blown inland by three days of storm 

 ,\rere shot Sept. 28, 1912, at Lenape park on the 

 Brandywine, near West Chester, and are now in 

 the possession of Lewis Darlington (Sharpies, Auk, 

 xxx, 1913, 105). 



11. Sterna hirundo Common Tern. Straggler. 

 According to Dr. Warren, C. D. Wood has pre- 

 pared specimens taken in the county, and that it has 

 been captured while migrating in autumn. I may 

 also state that Dr. Montgomery saw an individual 

 of a small species of this genus (perhaps S. hirundo) 

 shot on the Brandywine near Lenape, in the late 

 summer of 1887, but owing to the rapid decomposi- 

 tion of the specimen, he was unable to fully identify 

 the species. 



12 Sterna antillarum Least Tern. Straggler. Dr. 

 Warren states that he has seen it taken during the 

 past ten years, in August and September (Bds. Pa., 

 1890, 22). 



13. Sterna fuscata Sooty Tern. Straggler. Bar- 

 nard records it as very rare and it is presumed that 

 he made a capture. In the spring of 1878, a speci- 



