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III. SPECIES OF PROBABLE OCCURRENCE. 



Of the following list of nineteen species, the greater part have 

 been included in various former lists of the birds of Massachu- 

 setts, but generally on inferential evidence, or on erroneous iden- 

 tification. About one-fourth of them have been taken within a 

 few miles of the southern boundary of the State, and others, from 

 their known general range, must evidently occur at rare intervals. 

 At least one-half of the species named below have already been 

 taken in adjoining States at points not far from the Massachusetts 

 line. 



1. Lams kumlieni. KUMLIEN'S GULL. As several speci- 

 mens of this recently described species have been taken near the 

 eastern coast of Maine (Grand Menan and Bay of Fundy), and 

 one at Troy, N. Y., it may reasonably be expected to occur as a 

 straggler to the coast of Massachusetts. 



2. Procellaria pelagica. STORMY PETREL. This species 

 was formerly included as a bird of Massachusetts, but there seems 

 to be no positive record of its occurrence south of the Newfound- 

 land Banks. Its capture off the New England coast, as far south 

 even as Massachusetts, would not be surprising, since at present 

 our off-shore birds are by no means well-known. 



3. Fregata aquila. MAN-O'-WAR BIRD. As this southern 

 species has been taken on Faulkner's Island, Conn. (Grinnell, Am. 

 Nat., IX, 1865, 470), at Booth Bay, Maine (Pur die, in Stearns 

 and Coues's New England Bird Life, II, 1883, 342), and in Nova 

 Scotia (Deane, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, IV, 1879, 64), it may be 

 entered in the present list as a possible accidental visitor to 

 Massachusetts. 



4. Anas penelope. WIDGEON. This European species, for- 

 merly given as a bird of Massachusetts, still lacks confirmation as 

 a bird of the State, or even of New England. It has been taken 

 on Long Island, in New Jersey, and southward to Florida, and 

 also in Greenland, and may well be expected to occur in Massa- 

 chusetts. 



5. Anas crecca. EUROPEAN TEAL. Occurs as a straggler in 

 eastern North America, having been taken at various points from 



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