44 BULLETIN 292, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Lake, Minn. (Roberts) ; Devils Lake, N. Dak. (Job) ; San Luis Lakes, 

 Colo. (Cooke) ; Great Salt Lake, Utah (Saunders) ; and Minidoka, 

 Idaho (DiUe). 



Winter range. — The principal winter home of this gull along the 

 Atlantic coast is from North Carolina to Florida, but a few remain 

 in the Chesapeake Bay and rarely on the New Jersey coast — Cape 

 May, January, 1892 (Stone) — while it is a straggler in winter still 

 farther north. It can usually be found at Detroit, Mich., and on 

 Lake Michigan during winter, and at Chicago, 111., it was common 

 the whole winter of 1894-95 (Parker). It is common on the Gulf 

 coast in winter, south to Fort Myer, Fla. (Scott), and to Browns- 

 ville, Tex. (Merrill), while in the interior it has been known to occur 

 at Washington, D. C, January 23, 1887 (Fisher); Hickman, Ky., 

 January 1, 1887 (Pindar); Barr Lake, Colo., occasional in winter 

 (Rockwell); near Colorado Springs, Colo., about January 1, 1890 

 (Aiken and Warren) ; Fort Sherman, Idaho, once in January (Mer- 

 rill); Lewistown, Mont., one, December 31, 1898, killed by eating of 

 the carcass of a sheep that had been poisoned as bait for coyotes 

 (Silloway); and Pyramid Lake, Nov.; December 21, 1867 (Ridgway). 

 On the Pacific coast it winters from San Francisco Bay, Cal., to San 

 Diego, and, in the interior, on Owens Lake, Salton Sea, and Lake Tahoe 

 (Grinnell) ; also south to San Quintin, Lower California, December 27, 

 1905, to January 21, 1906 (Thayer); La Paz, Lower California, Feb- 

 ruary 15, 1882 (Brewster) ; Mazatlan (Lawrence) ; Guaymas, Decem- 

 ber; Presidio, January and February; Santa Ana, near Guadalajara, 

 November (Saunders); and Tehuantepec, February 21, 1869, and in 

 March (Sumichrast) . It occurs casually in winter north to Portland, 

 Oreg. (Anthony), Bellingham Bay, Wash. (Edson), and to the Lower 

 Fraser Valley and Lake Okanogan (Brooks). A straggler was taken 

 in Bermuda, January 1, 1849 (Reid). 



Migration range. — A specimen of the ring-billed gull was taken Sep- 

 tember 6, 1900, at Port Manvers, on the Labrador coast (Bigelow). 

 It is reported as occurring in Newfoundland (Reeks) ; at Ingonish, 

 Cape Breton Island (Townsend) ; and was seen during the fall of 1911 

 in Alaska as follows: Kings Cove, the middle of August; Icy Strait, 

 August 30; Wrangell Narrows, August 31; and Ketchikan, September 

 1 (Wetmore) . One was taken May 24, 191 1, near Campbell Island, Brit- 

 ish Columbia (Beck), and August 6-18, 1897, the species was common 

 in flocks along the British Columbia coast near Port Simpson (Preble). 

 The first record for Hawaii is that of an individual taken February 1, 

 1901 (Bryan). 



Spring migration. — The first spring migrants of this species usually 

 appear at Washington, D. C, in February — February 5, 1900, and 

 February 16, 1913; Canandaigua, N. Y., February 1, 1906 (Antes); 

 Rockaway Beach, N. Y., February 13, 1910 (Griscom and Dow); 



