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Mr. WilKam Macgillivray includes this species in his Manual 

 of British Ornithology, with the remark that " this species 

 has once occurred in Ireland." — Vol ii. p. 254. 



" I remember some years ago to have seen a notice in print, 

 that this bird had been once taken in Ireland, but from the 

 countries visited or known to the writer of that notice, and from 

 the circumstance that this species had only occurred in high 

 northern latitudes, I came to the conclusion that the printer had 

 made a mistake of one letter, and that for Ireland we ought to 

 read Iceland. Add to this, that the Birds of Ireland have been 

 carefully worked-out by Mr. Thompson of Belfast, who is one 

 of the best authorities for Irish Birds, and this species is not 

 included by him in his Fauna of Ireland." 



The following are the references to this species, which Mr. 

 YarreU is so good as to supply at the end of his letter. 



Larus Rossii. 



Ross's Rosy Gull — Cuneate-tailed Gull — Wedge-tailed G. &c., 

 j&rst noticed by Dr. Richardson in a paper read by the 

 Wernerian Society, in January, 1824. 



FaunaBoreali Americana, Swains, and Eich., 1831. .page 427. sp. 192. 

 Nuttall'sMan.Ornith. of U. S. and Canada, 1834. ..page 295 and 6. 



Audubon's Ornith. Biog. 1839 vol. 5. page 324. 



„ Synopsis of Birds of N. A. 1 839 page 323. sp. 442. 



Macgillivray's Man. of Brit. Ornith. 1842. vol. S.page 252. 



Audubon's Birds of Amer. 1844 vol. 7- page 296. 



Richardson's App. to Parry's Second Voyage page 359. 



Ross's App. to Parry's Polar Voyage page 195. 



Appendix to Ross's Last Voyage, 1835 page 36. sp. 26. 



Wilson's Illust. Zool. vol. 1. pi. 8. 

 Jardine and Selby Orn. Illust. p. 1. plate 14. 



See also Gray and Mitchell's Genera of Birds, part 19, Nov. 1845, for 

 a figure on plate 180 of the head and form of the tail. 



The Fauna Boreali Americana, not being accessible to me, I 

 consulted Audubon's American Ornithological Biography, of 

 which there is a copy in the library of the Society. Under 

 the head of Larus Rossii, Audubon remarks that he has never 

 met with " this beautiful little Gull," and that he is conse- 



