14 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LONGIPENNES. 



LARIDAE. 



N. H. — Common migrant and winter resident; less common 

 summer visitor coastwise. 



Vt. — Uncommon migrant and rare summer resident (Lake 

 Champlain) . 



Mass. — Common migrant and winter resident, less common 

 summer visitor coastwise; not now knoT\'n to breed (nested at 

 Wepecket Id., 1882, Mackay). 



R. I. — Common migrant and winter resident, mainly coast- 

 wise; a few non-breeding birds summer. Sept. 10-May 22; 

 summer. 



Conn. — Common migrant and winter resident, mainly coast- 

 wise; a few non-breeding birds summer. Oct.-May; summer. 



26. Larits delawarensis Ord. 



Ring-billed gull. 



Ord, Guthrie's Geogr., hist., and commercial grammar, 2d 

 Amer. ed., 1815, vol. 2, p. 319. "on the Delaw^are below 

 Philadelphia." Chapman, Handb. birds east. No. Amer., 

 1895, p. 73. 



Lams zonorhynchus Richardson. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 

 1844, vol. 7, p. 152, pi. 446. 



Sea coasts; nests on the ground. 



Me., X. H. — Uncommon migrant and rare winter resident 

 coastwise. !Mar .-April; Oct .-Nov. (winter). 



Mass. — Uncommon migrant coastwise. Spring; July 17- 

 Oct. 30. 



R. I. — Uncommon migrant and winter resident. Nov.-April. 



Conn. — Uncommon micn-ant and winter resident. 



