16 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LONGIPENNES. 



LARIDAE. 



R. I. — Common migrant and uncommon winter resident. Aug. 

 5-May 22. 



Conn. — Common migrant, mainly in fall. Aug. 1-Xov.; (win- 

 ter ?)-April 21. 



29. Xema sabinii (Sabine) Leach. 



Sabine's gull; Fork-tailed gull. 



Larus sabinii J. Sab., Trans. Linn. soc. London, 1818, vol. 12, 

 p. 520, pi. 29. "west coast of Greenland .... latitude 75° 

 29' N., AND longitude 60° 9' W." Audubon, Birds of Amer., 

 1844, vol. 7, p. 127, pi. 441. Egg, Seebohm, 1896, p. 105, pi. 36, 

 fig. 8. _ 



Arctic seas and coasts; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Accidental visitor: Brothers Id., near Portland, Sept. 22, 

 1899; Scarborough, May 31, 1877; (nee Calais, 1878). 



Mass. — Accidental visitor : Boston Harbor, Sept. 27, 1874; 

 Cape Cod, 1888; North Truro, Aug. 21, 1889. 



R. I.— Doubtfully recorded. 



30. Gelochelidon nilotica (Hasselquist) Stejneger. 



Gull-billed tern; Marsh tern. 



Sterna nilotica Hasselq., Reise nach Pal., deutsch. ausg., 1762, 

 p. 325. [Nile River, Egypt]. 



Sterna anglica Montagu. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1844, vol. 

 7, p. 81, pi. 430. Egg, Seebohm, 1896, p. 99, pi. 31, figs. 6, 8. 



Seacoasts; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Accidental \-isitor, several instances. March; May 21; 

 Sept. 



Mass. — Accidental visitor: Ipswich, Sept. 1871. 

 R. I. — Doubtfullv recorded. 



