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immature, is still in the collection; the others, Nos. 6472 and 8435, were 

 sent in 1870 to the Chicago Academy of Sciences, where they were pre- 

 sumably destroyed in the Great Fire. 

 Rissa septentrioiialis Lawrence 



Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York 6:265 (not earlier than February), 



1858. 

 =Larus canus brachyrhynchus Richardson. See Dwight, Bull. Amer. 



Mus. Nat. Hist. 52: 173, 179, 1925. 



6470. Adult (sex not indicated). "Shot at the straits of Juan de 

 Fuca/Near Puget Sound, W.T." [fide original label), or "obtained . . . 

 at Bellingham bay, a harbor just north of Puget Sound" {fide Suckley, 

 Rep. Expl. and Surv. R.R. Pac. 12 [2] : 277, 1860). July 30, 1856. 

 Collected by Thomas J. Turner for George Suckley {fide Suckley, loc. 

 cit.) . Original number 520. 



6471. Adult (sex not indicated). Same locality data as for No. 6470. 

 Original number 519. 



Larus schistisagus Stejneger 

 Aukl (3): 231, July 1884. 

 92885. Adult male. Bering Island, Commander Islands, southwestern 

 Bering Sea. May 5, 1883, Collected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. 

 Original number 2007. 

 Larus barrovianus Ridgway 

 Auk 3 (3): 330, July 1886. 

 88913. Adult male. Point Barrow (lat. 71°20' N., long. 156^00' W.), 

 Alaska. August 4, 1882. Collected by Middleton Smith. Original 

 number 574. 

 Larus albipennis Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 288, "pi. lxx\ti," 

 1848, 

 =Larus maculipennis Lichtenstein. See Dwight, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. 52: 295, 299, 1925; Peters, Checklist of birds of the world 2: 299, 

 1934. 

 15507. Adult male, Valparaiso, Province of Aconcagua, Chile. May 

 18 — . Original number 737. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838- 

 42). 

 Peale seems to have had two specimens of this form, but his description 

 was based upon a male, and thus the second, a female (No. 15694), can be 

 considered only a paratype. 

 Larus kunilieni Brewster 



Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club. 8 (4) : 216, October 1883. 

 =Larus leucopterus VieillotXLaras argentatus thayeri W. S. Brooks. 



See Dwight, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 52: 254-256, 1925. 

 76225. Adult male. Cumberland Sound, southeastern BaflBn Island, Dis- 

 trict of Franklin, Northwest Territories, Canada. June 14, 1878. 

 Collected by Thure L. T. Kumlien. Original number 763. 



