92 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



Family THINOCORIDAE: Seed-snipes 



Genus THINOCORUS Eschscholtz 



Glareola cuneicauda Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 244, "pi. LXViii," 



1848. 

 =Thinocorus rumicivorus cuneicauda (Peale). See Wetmore, U.S. Nat. 



Mus. BuU. 133: 172-173, 1926. 

 15729. Immature male. Island of San Lorenzo, just off Callao, Peru 



Original number 654. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 



Family LARIDAE: Gulls, Terns 



Genus LARUS Linnaeus 



Larus bracIiyrLyncIius Richardson 



in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana 2 (the 

 birds) : 422, February 1832. 

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



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

 "6262"=370445. Subadult female. Fort Franklin, on Keith Bay {fide 

 Richardson, op. cit.. Introduction, p. xv) , Great Bear Lake, District of 

 Mackenzie, Northwest Territories, Canada. May 23, 1826. Collected 

 by John Richardson. 

 The original label of this specimen no longer exists, but the old exhibition 

 label now attached to it (which bears the name "Larus delawarensis, Ord") 

 carries the same data as Richardson's bird of the "Fauna BorealiAmeri- 

 cana." The number "6262" found on the label is not that of our register, 

 and the specimen was given the new number 370445 on January 8, 1942. 



The means by which the bird reached the National Museum cannot now 

 be known, but it presumably came among several others of Richardson's 

 collection said to have been received from John Gould. 

 Larus siickleyi Lawrence 



Ann, Lye. Nat. Hist. New York 6:264 (not earlier than February), 

 1858. 

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



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

 4571 bis. Adult (sex not indicated). Steilacoom, Pierce County, Wash- 

 ington. February 4, 1856. Collected by George Suckley. Original 

 number 217. 

 Lawrence had four specimens, of which one was adult, a second subadult, 

 and the others immature (and only doubtfully placed under the name 

 suckleyi) . Since the description was based upon an adult. No. 4571 bis 

 must be considered the type, but it should be noted that it is in winter dress 

 and thus does not have the head and neck white as stated. No. 6476, an 



