134 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Azores, India, China, Japan, and the Philippines. Casual in Iceland; acci- 

 dental in Greenland,! Massachusetts (Newburyport, January 27, 1930),- 

 Mexico (Vera Cruz), and Barbados.^ [An aUied race occurs in extreme eastern 

 Siberia.] 



Larus atricilla Linnaeus. Laughing Gull. [58.] 



Larus Atricilla Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 136. Based on the 

 Laughing Gull, Larus major Catesby, Carolina, I, 89. (in America = 

 Bahamas.) 



Range.- — ^Breeds from Maine and Massachusetts (formerly Nova Scotia) 

 south to Florida, Texas, southern California, the Lesser Antilles, and Vene- 

 zuela. Winters from South Carolina and the Gulf coast south to Brazil, 

 Peru, and Chile. Casual in Colorado, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Ontario, Iowa, 

 and Quebec; accidental in Lower California, Bermuda, and Europe. 



Larus pipixcan Wagler. Franklin's Gull. [59.] 



Larus Pipixcan Wagler, Isis von Oken, [XXIV] 1831, Heft v (May), 

 col. 515. (Advena est, neque educat stagnis Mexicanis prolem = 

 Mexico.) 



Range.- — -Breeds in prairie regions of interior North America from south- 

 ern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, and south-central Manitoba to Utah, 

 South Dakota, Iowa (formerly), and southern Minnesota. Winters from the 

 Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas to Peru, Patagonia, and Chile. Accidental 

 in California, Colorado, Ontario, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts, 

 New Brunswick, the Lesser Antilles, and Hawaii. 



Larus Philadelphia (Ord). Bonaparte's Gull. [60.] 



Sterna Philadelphia Ord, in Guthrie, Geog., 2d Amer. ed., 1815, 319. 

 (No locality mentioned = near Philadelphia, Pa.) 



Range.^ — Breeds in interior North America from northwestern Alaska and 

 northern Mackenzie south to central British Columbia and central Alberta; 

 has occurred in summer (not breeding) on the coast of northern New Jersey, 

 Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Winters from Massachusetts (Maine 

 rarely) to Florida, on the Gulf coast to Yucatan, and on the Pacific coast from 

 southeastern Alaska to Lower California and western "Mexico (Jalisco); in 

 migration west to Kotzebue Sound and east to Quebec (Ungava). Casual in 

 Peru, Bermuda, and the Bahamas; accidental in Greenland, Laysan Island, 

 Great Britain, France, and Heligoland. 



1 Schipler, Dansk. Orn. For. Tidssk., XI, 1917, 175. 



2 Emilio and Griscom, Auk. XLVII, 1930, 243. 



3 Lincoln, Auk, XLII, 1925, 374, 



