354 LARIDiE: JAEGERS, GULLS, TERNS, ETC. 



sentatives of the Laridce, being only less rare in col- 

 lections than Rhodostethia rosea and Xema furcata ; 

 but of late it has been turning up anywhere, and the 

 probability is that it has been often overlooked or 

 confounded with Bonaparte's Gull, which it resembles 

 closely. Although recorded many years ago by Mr. 

 Lawrence for Long Island, it does not appear to have 

 been recognized as a New England bird until noted as 

 such by Mr. William Brewster in the "American Sports- 

 man" (v, 1875, p. 370), then published at West Meri- 

 den, Conn., by the late Mr. William F. Parker, one of 

 the firm manufacturing the well-known "Parker gun." 

 This is the case of a specimen taken in Boston Harbor, 

 Sept. 27, 1864, by Mr. H. W. Diamond, and later placed 

 in Mr. Brewster's collection. (See also Bull. Nutt 

 Club, i, 1876, p. 30, and Pr. Bost. Soc, xvii, 1875, 

 p. 449 : same case.) In 1878, Mr. Allen recorded 

 a specimen taken in the spring of that year at Calais, 

 Maine, by Mr. Boardman, in nearly full plumage 

 (Bull. Nutt. Club, iii, 1878, p. 195). The same note by 

 Mr. Allen also speaks of a third case of which he was 

 informed, — >that of a specimen- taken a short time be- 

 fore at Portland, Maine. Concerning the Calais case, 

 Mr. Boardman writes to Dr. Brewer : " I have known 

 this bird to be about almost every spring, but was never 

 able to get one, and only succeeded by getting a cart- 

 load, almost, of Bonaparte Gulls. As you go from East- 

 port to Calais, you can often see with a good glass a 

 Gull or two, among the thousands with the black wing- 

 feathers, different from the Bonapartes " (Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., XX, 1879, P- 285). 



