640 NOTES ON SOME OF THE 
Connecticut. So far as I have been able to learn by careful 
inquiry, this species is much less common in New England 
than several authors represent. It seems to be but an acci- 
dental or very rare visitor. 
AMERICAN Warre Pernican. Pelecanus erythrorhynchus 
Gmelin. I learn from Mr. S. C. Martin that a flock of 
thirteen individuals visited Nantucket Island during a heavy 
storm a few years since. After being repeatedly fired at 
one of them was finally killed, near Brant Point light-house. 
Mr. C. J. Maynard also informs me that several were seen at 
Ipswich at about the same time. The only other recent in- 
stance of the capture of this species in New England seems 
to be that at Calais, Maine, given by Mr. G. A. Boardman.* 
It seems to be entirely accidental here now, although for- 
merly, according to early writers, of not unfrequent occur- 
rence. It still ranges, however, over the greater part of 
the continent. i 
Herrine Gurt. Larus argentatus Brinn. Although 
large numbers of this species spend the summer along the 
Massachusetts coast, I have not been able to find any breed- 
ing here. Those seen in summer are all immature birds, 
generally in brown plumage. Although they once unques- 
tionably bred on our coast, none now appear to rear their 
young nearer than the northern part of the coast of Maine. 
Hence the occurrence of large numbers of immature birds 
in summer two hundred miles south of the nearest breeding 
grounds of the species is a fact of considerable interest. 
Some years since Dr. Elliott Coues separated the Amer- 
ican Herring Gull from the European, under the name of 
Larus Smithsonianus, he supposing it to differ in certain 
points of coloration from the European bird.¢ Unfortu- 
nately, these differences do not prove constant, specimens 
identical in every particular with the typical European L. 
- |. argentatus of Coues occurring not unfrequently on the New 
-F Poe. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, Vol. ix, p. 130. 
North Ameriea, 


.  fRerision of the Gulls of etc., Proc. P. A. N. S., June, 1862, p. 296. 

