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40 Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus). 

 Kittiwake. 



Adults. Length, 16-17.50. Wing, 12.25. Back and wings, pearl gray ; head, 

 neck, under parts and tail, white; outer web of outer primary and terminal 

 part of first five primaries, black ; third to fifth sometimes with white tips. 

 Head in winter washed with gray, and a dusky spot around the eye. 



This gull probably occurs regularly well off shore in winter, espe- 

 cially about the fishing banks. Turnbull says it is "rather rare along 

 the coast/' and Mr. S. N. Rhoads told me in 1890 that it had been 

 seen off the coast at Atlantic City. Mr. W. H. Werner informed me 

 that in midwinter, 1894-5, he obtained a number of specimens from 

 fishermen who went out to the banks. Subsequently, he tells me, they 

 have been seen every fall in varying numbers, most numerous in 1898. 

 Mr. Rehn reported one obtained at the same place January, 1896. 1 

 Messrs. Stackpole and Wiegman report seventy-four adults and thirty- 

 seven immature observed December 31st, 1904, from ten to twenty-five 

 miles off Long Branch, 2 and Messrs. Stackpole and Rogers fifteen in 

 the same vicinity December 27th, 1908. 3 One specimen, mounted by 

 Mr. C. A. Voelker in November, 1893, was said to have been shot in 

 the interior of New Jersey. 4 



42 Larus hyperboreus Gunnerus. 

 Glaucous Gull. 



Adults. Length, 26-32. Wing, 17-18.50. Above, pale pearl gray on the back 

 and wings, rest of plumage pure white ; head and neck faintly streaked with 

 gray. 



Young in different stages are pale brownish-gray with buffy edgings, becom- 

 ing more or less pearl and white ; wing feathers varying from pale gray to white. 



A rare winter visitant along the northern part of the coast. 

 There is no mention of this species in any of the New Jersey lists, 

 but in the collection of the late Dr. S. W. Woodhouse there was a 



1 Cassinia, 1901, p. 46. 



2 Bird Lore, 1905, pp. 27, 28. 



3 Bird Lore, 1909, p. 23. 



4 Stone, Birds of E. Pa. and N. J., p. 42. 



