136 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Breeds in high Arctic latitudes from Bruce Patrick Island and 

 northern Baffin Island to northern Greenland, and on Arctic islands of the 

 Eastern Hemisphere. Winters in the Arctic regions and casually south to 

 Manitoba, Lake Ontario, and New York (Long Island); in Europe south 

 casually to France. Casual at Point Barrow in autumn; accidental in British 

 Columbia and Manitoba. 



Genus RISSA Stephens, 



Rissa Stephens, in Shaw, General Zoology, XIII, Pt. 1, Feb. 18, 1826, 180. 

 Type, by monotypy, Rissa hrunnichii Stephens =Lar(is tridactylus 

 Linnaeus. 



Rissa tridactyla tridactyla (Linnaeus) . Atlantic Kittiwake. [40.] 



Larus tridactylus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 136. (in Europa 

 septentrionali = Great Britain.) 



Range. — Breeds from the eastern Arctic islands west, probably, to Somerset 

 Island, and on the east coast of Baffin Island south to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 and from the Arctic islands of Europe and western Siberia to northern France. 

 Winters from the Gulf of St. Lawrence south to New Jersey, and casually to 

 Virginia, Florida, Bermuda, and also to the Canaries, Azores, and the Mediter- 

 ranean, Black, and Caspian seas. Accidental in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, 

 Missouri, Colorado, and Wyoming. 



Rissa tridactyla pollicaris Ridgway. Pacific Kittiwake. [40a.] 



Rissa tridactyla pollicaris "Stejneger Ms.," Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Amer., II, 1884, 202, 205. (Kotzebu 

 Sound, Alaska.) 



Range. — Coasts of North Pacific, Bering Sea, and adjacent Arctic Ocean. 

 Breeds from Cape Lisburne and Herald Island south to Aleutian, Kurile 

 and Commander islands, Kamchatka, and northeast coast of Siberia, wander- 

 ing to Pt. Barrow, Alaska. Winters from Sitka and possibly the Aleutian 

 Islands south to northern Lower California. 



Rissa brevirostris (Bruch). Red-legged Kittiwake. [41.] 



Larus {Rissa) brevirostris "Brandt," Bruch, Journ. fiir Orn., I, No. 2, 

 March, 1853, 103. (Nord-Westkuste von America = Northwestern 

 America.) 



Range. — Breeds on islands in Bering Sea (Pribilof, Near, and Commander, 

 groups). Winters on adjoining oceans. Accidental in Yukon Territory 

 Alaska (St. Michael), in Kamchatka, and on Wrangel Island. 



Genus RHODOSTETHIA Macgillivray. 



Rhodostethia Macgillivray, Manual Brit. Orn., II, 1842, 252, Type, 

 by orig. desig., Larus rossii Richardson = Larus roseus Macgillivray. 



