FAUNA OF PENIKESE ISLAND. 



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Roseate Tern — Sterna dougallii. Fairly common. 

 Least Tern — Sterna antillarum. Rare. 

 Cory Shearwater — Puffinus horealis. Rare. 

 Herring Gull — Larus argentatus. Rare. 

 Laughing Gull — Larus atricilla. Rare. 

 Meadow Lark — Sturnella magna. Few (6). 

 Yellow Warbler — Dendroica cestiva cestiva. One pair. 

 Upland Plover — Bartramia longicanda. 



Semipalmate Sandpiper — Ereunetes pusillus. Very common. 



Little Green Heron — Butorides virescens. 



Ruddy Turnstone — Arenaria interpres morinella. Two. 



Red-wing Blackbird — Agelaius phoeniceus. Common. 



Spotted Sandpiper — Actitis macularia. 



Least Sandpiper — Pisohia miniitilla. 



Killdeer — Oxyechus vociferus. 



Yellow legs — Totanus sp.? Rare. 



Woodcock — Philohela minor. ^ One. 



Virginia Rail — Rallus virginianus. 



Curlew — Numenius sp.? 



Eve Swallow? — 



Ringneck Plover — Aegialitis semipalmata (Semipalmate Plover). 



Other Vertebrates. 

 Bujo jowleri — Common toad. 4 examples. 



(Identified by Miss Doris M. Cochran, U. S. National Museum.) 



Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis — Common garter snake. 6 examples. 



(Identified by Miss Doris M. Cochran, U. S. National Museum.) 



Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis (Fischer). Field mouse. One 

 example taken in one of the traps left on the island. Specimen 

 preserved by the kindness of the State caretaker on Penikese; 

 identified by F. E. Wood. 



1 Reported by D. B. Young. 



