ABT. 12 BIRDS OF ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND — FRIEDMANN 23 



Bent records this bird as breeding on St. Lawrence Island. 

 Hen dee saw several there during the first week in July. 



Family LARIDAE, Gulls, Terns 



LARUS HYPERBOREUS Gunncrus 



Glaucous Gull 



Laius hiiperboreus Gunnerus, in Leem, Beskrivelse over Fiuinarkens Lapper 



p. 226 (note), 1767 (uorthern Norway). 

 Laruf! Jjarrovianu^. Nelson, Report upon natural history collections made in 



Alaska, p. 52, 1887. 

 Lams liyperhoreus, Jaques, Auk, vol. 47, p. 358, 1930. 



In his report on the birds of Bering Sea ^^ Nelson writes of this 

 gull (under the name Lm^us glaucus) to the effect that it breeds on 

 all the islands and shores of Bering Sea. In his later report he gives 

 the first definite record for St. Lawrence Island and states that the 

 bird breeds in that place. 



Dr. A. K. Fisher informs me that one specimen of this gull was 

 secured by the Harriman Expedition and that others were seen the 

 day they landed on St. Lawrence Island (July 13, 1899). 



Jaques noted these birds north of the island, but none " were seen 

 much south of St. Lawrence Island." 



LARUS GLAUCESCENS Naumann 



Glaucous-wingeid Gull 



Larus filaucescens Naumann, Naturgescluchte der Vogel Deutschlands, voL 



10, p. 351, 1840 (Nord-Amerika). 

 Lams gloucescens, Brooks, Bull. Mus. Conip. Zool., vol. 59, p. 373, 1915. — 



RiDGWAY, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, vol. 8, p. 598, 1919.— Bent, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. Bull. 113, p. 73, 1921. — Hartert, Die Vogel der palaarktiscben Fauna, 



vol. 2, p. 1734, 1921. 



Brooks found this species breeding at St. Lawrence Island. A set 

 of eggs taken by him on June 20 was very advanced in incubation. 



LARUS ARGENTATUS VEGAE Palmen 



Vega Gull 



Larus argentatws Bexjnn. var. Vegae Palmen, in NordenskiSld, Vega-Expedi- 

 tionens Vetenskapliga lakttagelser, vol. 5, p. 370, 1887 (Pidlin and vidnity, 

 extreme northeastern Siberia). 



Collins collected two Vega gulls, thereby adding this species to the 

 known avifauna of St. Lawrence Island. Both birds were taken 



^^ Nelson, E. W., Birds of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean. Cruise of the revenue- 

 Eteamer Concin in .Alaslfa and the NW. Arctic Ocean in 1881, p. 106, 1883. 



