200 



LONG-WINGED SWIMMEUS — LONGIPENNES. 



marked species, and as occasionally uttering, as it Hies, a peculiarly shrill and plain- 

 tive cry. 



Colonel Grayson met with this bird in and about Ma/atlan, and procured s|iwi- 

 mens in December. A fi-w other birds of this si)ecies were seen during the .same 

 month, but they were not common in that locality. 



Mr. Salvin obtained a single specimen of this (luU in the plumage, which has In-en 

 described with tin- name of C. cucullatus, at Chiapani, on the Pacdfic coa.st of Guate- 

 mala, in January. 18(jy. 



Mr. Donald (Junn, in his Notes and Journcal of his visits to Shoal and other lakes, 

 mentions his having met with th's species. We copy from his I'ournal : — 



"We passed from Shoal Lake to Manitoba. The Franklin Gulls had fursaken the 

 marsh at tlui south end of that hike — which movement of theirs reduced us to tlic 

 necessity of following them to the north as far as Swan Creek. Here we found them 

 in considerable force. Their nests were among the bulrushes — flat on the water, 

 and composed of these rushes. We had a hard run for the eggs, as lots of fellows 

 from the Oak Point followed us, and began an active competition. However, we 

 secured one hundred and sixty-live of their eggs, and thirteen specimens of the Gulls 

 themselves." 



This Gull was foiuid breeding at Selkirk Settlement and in the lied Kiver Settle- 

 ment, as well as on Lake Manitoba, by Mr. Gunn. 



Tlie Smithsonian Collection contains a specimen which 1 received from I'rofe.ssor 

 Kundien in 1871 ; it was shot on the liOth of October. He writes me that but ftw 

 others have been noticed in that neighborhood. 



The ground-color of the eggs of this Gull varies from a pale grayish green to a 

 light drab, and even to an olive. The markings vary greatly in shajK; and si/e. 

 Some are rounded, others are zigzag; some are large, and others are snuiU; and all 

 are of a very dark olive-brown. Those in the Smithsonian Collection were brought 

 by Mr. Gunn from Shoal Lake. Five eggs present the f(dlowi;;g measurements : 

 2.00 by 1.40 inches; 2.00 by 1.45; 2.05 by 1.50; 2.15 by 1.45; 2.25 by 1.50. 



Larus Philadelphia. 



BOVAFABTE'S OtJLL. 



Sterna philadclphin, Onn, Outhrii''8 Oeog. 2d Ain. t-d. II. 1815, 319. 



ChrniciKfphaliis pliiladrl/iMii, Lawis. in Haird's B. N. Am. 1858, 852. — ISaiisI), f'.-it. N. Am. B. IS.IO, 



no. 670. — Newtos, P. Z. S. 1871, 57, id. 4, tig. 6 (egg). —Cocks, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sti. riiil.i.l. 



1862, 310 ; 2d Check List, 1882, iiu. 788. 

 Larus Philadelphia, OuAV, List Brit. B. 1863, 235 (Great Britain). — CouEs, Key, 1872, 316 ; Clink 



Li.st, 1873, no. 556. 

 Larus philitdclphice, Sacm)EI!h, P. Z. .S. 1878, 206. — KiDiiW. Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 675. 

 Larus (Chrmcocepluilus) Philadelphia, Coiies, B. N. W. 1874, 655. 

 Larm minutus, Sadine, App. Franklin's Voy. 1823, 696. — S\v. & Rich. F. B, A. IL 1831, 4-6 



(not of Pali.. 1776). 

 Larus cnpistralus, Bonap. Sih'cc. Conip. 1828, 69 (notof Temm. 1820). 

 / Larus mclauorhynchus, Tem.m. PI. Col. livr. 85, pi. 504 (1830 ; Chili). < 



larus Brnwijiarlii, Sw. & Bini. F. B. A. II. 1831, 425, pi. 72. — Niit. Man. II. 1834, 294. — Aid. 



Orn. Biog. IV. 1838, 212, pi. 324 ; Synop. 1839, 323 ; B. Am. VII. 1844, 131, pi. 452. 

 Larus (Chroicocephalus) subulirostris, "Br." Biiuiii, ,1. f. O. 1853, 105 (tj'pc in Mus. Mainz). 



Hab. The whole of North America, but no valid reconl of its occurrence Bouth of the United 

 States, except Bermudas (Hurdis). 



Sp. Char. Adult, in summer: Head and upper part of the neck dark phuubeons, the eyelids 

 marked by an elongated white spot. Lower part of the neck, entire lower itnrts, tail, upper t.nl- 





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