20 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Order LONGIPENNES. Long-winged Swimmers. 

 Family STERCORARIID^. Skuas and Jaegers. 



Stercorarius parasiticus (Linnaeus). Parasitic (or Richard- 

 son's) Jaeger. 



Merriam refers to this species as a " rare winter visitor."' 

 Linsley notes it from Bridgeport. 



Taken at Portland, fall of 1875 (J. H. S.) ; at Noahk, Sept. 

 10, 1903 (Dr. C. B. Graves, in coll. of J. H. S.). 



Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot. Long-tailed Jaeger. 



The only record of this species appears in Merriam's Birds of 

 Connecticut, p. 131. "I have just received from Wm. F. Lane, a 

 beautiful adult specimen of this Larine plunderer, which he shot 

 on the Community Lake at Wallingford, Conn., Aug. 30th, 1873." 



Family LARID^. Gulls and Terns. 

 Subfamily Larin.e. Gulls. 



Rissa tridactyla tridactyla (Linnseus). Kittiwake. 



A very rare winter visitant on the coast. 



April 2, i88o, large numbers in the Thames River, Norwich 

 (S. T. H.) -^ Nov. 15, 1883, one brought to the Peabody Museum 

 and seen in the flesh by L. B. B. ; Dec. 3, 1884, one seen alive at 

 West Haven by L. B. B.; Dec. 11, 1886, and March 19, 1887, 

 seen at New Haven by L. B. W. ; Jan. 21, 1895, a young male 

 taken at Stamford (in coll. of Mr. Schaler). 



Larus leucopterus Faber. Iceland Gull. 



The only record for Connecticut is a young male which was 

 shot by a fisherman between Rye and Stamford, March 3, 1894, ^ 

 and is now in the collection of L. H. Porter.^ 



Larus kumlieni Brewster. Kumlien's Gull. 

 A young female in the collection of Mr. Porter was shot in 

 Stamford Harbor, Feb. 16, 1894. 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 131. 

 »0. and O., vi, 4, p. 31. 

 'Auk, xH, I, p. 76. 



