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town, winter '94 '95 Auk 12, 290. Seneca Lake, Dec. 23, 1895 '> 

 May, 1896 ; numbers, winter of 1896 Auk 14, 202. Penn Yan, 

 Dec. 20, 1896 Verdi Burtch. Murray, Mar., 1897, and Kendall 

 Auk 1 6, 193. Canandaigua, Dec. 20, 1897. Cayuga Lake, winter 

 of 1899. Rochester, Nov. 27 Dec. 2, 1900, four birds were captured 

 near Cranberry Pond. 



Order LONGIPENNES. Long -winged swimmers. 

 Family STERCORARIIDAE. Skuas and. jaegers. 



35. Megalestris skua. (Briinn. ) Skua. 



Accidental visitant. Niagara River spring of 1886 Auk 6, 

 331 ; and Berg. p. 3. 



36. Stercorarius pomarinus (Temm.) Pomarine jaeger. 

 Transient visitant; very rare. Buffalo, two records James Savage. 



37. Stercorarius parasiticus (Linn.) Parasitic jaeger. 

 Transient visitant; very rare. Buffalo, one record James Savage. 

 Mouth of Niagara River, Sept.. 1897 Harry Lansing. 



Family L A R I D A E. Gulls and terns. 

 40. Rissa tridactyla (Linn.) Kittiwake. 



Winter visitant ; rare. Seneca Lake, Aub. p. 41. Oneida 

 Lake, Nov. 9, 1890 Auk n, 162. Buffalo, (< tolerably common 

 migrant" Berg. p. 3. 



42. Larus glaucus Briinn. Glaucous gull. 



Winter visitant ; rare. Buffalo, Jan. 29, 1895 Auk 12, 312. 



43. Larus leucopterus Faber Iceland gull. 



Winter visitant ; rare. Cayuga Lake, winter of 1896-7 L. A. 

 Fuertes. Peterboro, Feb. i, 1884 Auk i, 240. 



47. Larus marinus Linn. Great black-backed gull. 



Winter visitant ; occasional. Lewiston, Feb. i, 1886 J. L. 

 Davison. Buffalo, Jan. and Feb., 1895 Jas. Savage. Branchport, 

 April 1 8, 1898 C. F. Stone. Brockport Short, p. 5. 



51. Larus argentatus Briinn. Herring gull. 



Specimens answering the description of this species are occasion- 

 ally captured on the lakes. I have examined one bird from Lake 

 Ontario which was decidedly argentatus and have seen several which 

 intergrade between this species and the following. 



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