CHECK LIST OF NEW YORK BIRDS 209 
25 (58) *Laughing gull 
Larus atricilla Linn. 
26 (60) Bonaparte’s gull 
Larus philadelphia (Ord) 
27 [60.1] Little gull! 
Larus minutus Pall. 
28 (62) Sabine’s gull? 
Xema sabinii (Sab.) 
1There is one American record of the occurrence of this European species. It was 
taken at Fire Island, Long Island. See Ault, 5:172. 
2An arctic form. Two Long Island records. See Giraud’s Birds of Long Island, 1844, 
p. 363; Baird, Brewer & Ridgway’s Water birds, 2:272; Auk, 17:63. 
