30 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 82. 



igan record or specimen of this species is known. It has 

 been found on Lakes Michigan and Ontario, and probably 

 occurs rarely on J\Iichigan waters, but under a strict ruling 

 the bird should be taken from the state list until a specimen 

 is actually secured within our limits. The writer knows of 

 no Lake Erie records. 



2. Lams frankliui. Franklin's Gull. — There is apparently 

 no authentic record for this bird in ]\Iichigan. Barrows in- 

 cludes it on the strength of its occurrence in Indiana, where 

 " it has been occasionally seen by Mr. J. W. Byrkit at Mich- 

 igan City." ^ This region of sand dunes seems to be a very 

 unlikely locality for this gull. It is not included by Wood- 

 ruff in the list of species in the Chicago area,- a region which 

 is close to Michigan City. Wisconsin records are mainly in 

 the interior, as would be expected, since Franklin's Gull is 

 more a bird of the prairies than of the larger bodies of water 

 like Lake Michigan. LTndoubtedly Lanis Philadelphia is the 

 source of many records of Franklin's gull. I am aware of 

 no records for Indiana, and but one early one for Ontario.^ 

 There is one late record for Ohio.'* 



3. Xema sabini. Sabine's Gull. — This bird is included as 

 a Michigan species on the authority of A. B. Covert,'' who 

 states that a female was secured on the Huron River, Ann 

 Arbor, November 17, 1880. Anyone who will consult and 

 compare the two lists published by Covert, and his two man- 

 uscript lists, will see how vague was his knowledge of the 

 majority of the water birds, which, taken with his total un- 

 reliability in other respects, renders this record worthless. 

 The above bird was said to have been taken by James Bow- 

 yer, and nothing is known of it at the L^niversity of Michi- 



^Bntler, A. W. Birds of Indiana. Dept. GeoL and Nat. Re- 

 sources, Ind., XXII, 1897, p. 574. 



= Woodruff, F. M. The Birds of tlie Chicago Area. Chicago Acad. 

 Sci., 1907. 



= McIhvraith. Thomas. The Birds of Ontario. 1894. p. 49. 



* Wilson Bulletin, XIX, March, 1907, p. 20. 



= Covert, A. B. Birds of Washtenaw County. HistoiT of Wash- 

 tenaw County. 1881. p. 192. Chicago. 



