52 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



specimen taken many years ago labeled New Jersey. Mr. Chapman 1 

 states that several have been killed on the lower Hudson River, and 

 Mr. J. Richardson 2 reports one at Sing Sing, while Messrs. Stackpole 

 and Wiegman 3 saw two, from ten to twenty-five miles off Long Branch, 

 December 31st, 1904. 



47 Larus marinus Linnaeus. 

 Great Black-backed Gull. 



Adults. Length, 28-31. Wing, 18-19.50. Back and wings, blackish slate; 

 rest of plumage, white ; wing feathers with white tips. 



Young in first winter. Similar to the young Herring Gull, but darker. 



A rather rare, but regular, winter visitant along the coast, appar- 

 ently more plentiful off New York Harbor than farther south. It is 

 mentioned by Turnbull as not uncommon, and Scott found it quite 

 common in the winter of 1876-7 at Long Beach. I have the follow- 

 ing records, although many other specimens have been shot : 



Cape May county (probably Five Mile Beach) ; three seen, one 

 shot: January 29th, 1879. Dr. W. L. Abbott. 4 



Atlantic City; two seen during blizzard, March 13th, 1888. S. N. 

 Rhoads. 5 



Tuckerton; March, 1894; one shot by Mr. Jillson. 4 



Tuckerton; February 1st, 1896 ; several seen. Mr. Jillson. 6 



Stone Harbor; January llth, 1901; one shot. 7 



Anglesea; February 5th, 1904. 8 



Krider states that he shot one at Barnegat, and has seen specimens 

 shot on the Delaware, 9 and Mr. C. G. Abbott saw one on Overpeck 

 Creek, Leonia, 10 February 26th, 1905. 



1 Birds of the Vicinity N. Y. City, p. 135. 



2 Abst. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., 1890, p. 2. 



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



* Stone, Birds of E. Pa. and N. J., p. 43. 



5 Auk, 1888, p. 318. 



6 Rhoads Abst. Proc. D. V. O. C., II., p. 20. 



7 Stone, Cassinia, 1901, p. 45. 



8 Cassinia, 1904, p. 54. 



9 Field Notes, p. 79. 



10 Abst. Linn. Soc., N. Y., XVII., p. 7. 



