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•little to confirm the belief that it is a regular migrant along 

 the Atlantic seaboard. It was for a long time supposed to be 

 a winter visitor. Dr. J. A. Allen however in ''A Revised List 

 of the Birds of Massachusetts" (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. i, 1886) expressed the belief that it is found along this part 

 of the coast in fall and spring only. This has been found to be 

 the case with the Jaegers in general. 



Of the few recorded specimens for the Atlantic coast, one is 

 from ''Oyster Bay South," Long Island, date not given, and 

 another, a ''young male shot in the month of October, 1842, on 

 Gowanus Bay " (Giraud, Birds of L. I., p. 365). 



16. Pagophila alba. Ivory Gull. 



Known on Long Island from a single specimen, shot by a 

 farmer who was "rigged out for ducks in an ice hole on Great 

 South Bay near Sayville" about Jan. 5, 1893 (Dutcher, Auk, 

 xii, 1893, p. 290). 



17. Rissa tridactyla. Kittiwake Gull. 



A comm.on winter visitor, Nov. 4 (Rockaway) to Feb. 27 

 (Rockaway). It arrives on Long Island a little later on the 

 average than the Great Black-backed Gull, sometimes becom- 

 ing abundant by the last of November. 



18. Lams glaucus. Glaucous Gull. 



A rare winter visitor, Jan. 2 to May 1. Recent records are 

 two March 11, 1884, (South Oyster Bay, Dutcher, Auk, ii, 

 p. 37), January 11, 1891, (Far Rockaway, Howell and Foster, 

 Abstr. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., no. 3, p. 5, 1891; same record, 

 Ornith. and OoL, xvi, p. 61). Other records are, Jan. 2, 

 1901; Jan. 13, 1901; March 13, 1904; and May 1, 1904, all, 

 Rockaway by INIr. Robt. L. Peavey of Brooklyn, the skins hav- 

 ing been examined by writer. 



19. Larus leucopterus. Iceland Gull. 



Yery rare winter visitor. A recent record is Rockaway 



