224 BIRDS OF OHIO. 
HYPOTHETICAL. 
The species included under this head are mostly those 
whose known range should cover Ohio either during their 
migrations or during their regular wanderings, but which 
have not yet been found in the state. Two of the species 
are here placed because they are regarded as hypothetical 
forms in the United States. The Cincinnati Warbler is 
still represented by a single specimen, and Brewster 
Warbler has not yet been given the distinction of a sub- 
specific rank. It will probably be some time before the 
question of hybridism as applying to these two forms is’ 
settled. I have deemed it wise to place here some species 
included in Dr. Wheaton’s catalogue on what appears now 
to be insufficient evidence. It is not enough -to say that a 
species is or has been found; the statement must always be 
verified by specimens where ‘the species is at all rare: 
No record should be allowed to stand unquestioned without 
the evidence of a specimen to prove that the species has oc- 
curred within the state. Rot te 4 epee a 
1. (88.) STERCORARIUS LONGICAUDUS. Vieill. . 
Long-tailed Jaeger. 
This Jaeger may pass across the state in its migrations. 
2. (40.) Rissa TRIDACTYLA (Linn.). 273. 
Kittiwake. 
Syronyms: Larus tridactylus. 
common Kittiwake. 
Wheaton, Ohio Agri. Report, 1860, 371, 379. 
There are two records for Ohio. That of three speci- 
mens reported by Mr. R. K. Winslow in Cleveland harbor, 
clearly before the eighties, and the report of Mr. E. W. 
Vickers for Mahoning county. I am unable to find evi- 
dence of the preservation of specimens of this gull. The 
fact that it is regarded as rare or even doubtful as a winter 
visitor in Michigan, and has never been found in Indiana 
