2O CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Order LONGIPENNES. Long-winged Swimmers. 

 Family STERCORARIIDJE. Skuas and Jaegers. 



Stercorarius parasiticus (Linnaeus). Parasitic (or Richard- 

 son's) Jaeger. 



Merriam refers to this species as a " rare winter visitor." 1 

 Linsley notes it from Bridgeport. 



Taken at Portland, fall of 1875 (J. H. S.) ; at Noank, Sept. 

 10, 1903 (Dr. C. B. Graves, in coll. of J. H. S.). 



Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot. Long-tailed Jaeger. 



The only record of this species appears in Merriam's Birds of 

 Connecticut, p. 131. "I have just received from Wm. F. Lane, a 

 beautiful adult specimen of this Larine plunderer, which he shot 

 on the Community Lake at Wallingford, Conn., Aug. 3Oth, 1873." 



Family LARIDJE. Gulls and Terns. 

 Subfamily LARIN^E. Gulls. 



Rissa tridactyla tridactyla (Linnaeus). Kittiwake. 



.A very rare winter visitant on the coast. 



April 2, 1880, large numbers in the Thames River, Norwich 

 (S. T. H.) ; 2 Nov. 15, 1883, one brought to the Peabody Museum 

 and seen in the flesh by L. B. B. ; Dec. 3, 1884, one seen alive at 

 West Haven by L. B. B.; Dec. n, 1886, and March 19, 1887, 

 seen at New Haven by L. B. W. ; Jan. 21, 1895, a young male 

 taken at Stamford (in coll. of Mr. Schaler). 



Larus leucopterus Faber. Iceland Gull. 



The only record for Connecticut is a young male which was 

 shot by a fisherman between Rye and Stamford, March 3, 1894, 

 and is now in the collection of L. H. Porter. 3 



Larus kumlieni Brewster. Kumlien's Gull. 

 A young female in the collection of Mr. Porter was shot in 

 Stamford Harbor, Feb. 16, 1894. 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 131. 

 *O. and O., vi, 4, p. 31. 

 Auk, xii, i, p. 76. 



