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Breeding from Maine (coast from Penobscot Bay eastward; near 

 Houlton), Nova Scotia, New York (near Wilmert; Adirondack 

 region; Hamilton County; Herkimer Comity; Four Brothers, Lake 

 Champlain),soutliern Ontario, islands in Lake Huron north of lat. 44° 

 N. (Little Charity Island, Saginaw Bay; etc.), Lake Michigan (The 

 Sisters and Strawberry Island, Green Bay; Grand Island), Minnesota 

 (MilleLacs; near Grand Marais), Manitoba (Shoal Lake; Lake Winni- 

 peg; etc.) and British Columbia (Sabine Lake) northward to Alaska 

 Peninsula (Stepovak Bay) , central Alaska (near Momit McKuiley ; mid- 

 dle Yukon Valley), northern Mackenzie (Arctic coast), Melville Island, 

 Wellington Channel, King Oscar Land, and Cumberland Sound (lat. 67° 

 N.); breeding in Europe and western Siberia from Iceland to northern 

 Russia (White Sea) and southward to British Islands and northern 

 France; migrating southward, more or less regularly, as far as Ber- 

 mudas, Bahamas, Cuba (Cardenas; Matanzas), Florida (Gulf coast 

 and Lake Okeechobee), coast of Texas (Corpus Christi; Fort Brown), 

 Yucatan (off Progreso, March 22). Lower California (mouth of 

 Colorado River; Cerros Island) and Tepic, western Mexico (Isabella 

 Island; Tres Marias Islands), European migrants passing southward 

 to Canary Islands, Madeira, and Mediterranean and Caspian seas. 



Larus argentatus Poxtoppida.v, Dauake Atlas, i, 1763, 622 (Denmark). — Brunnich, 

 Orn. Bor., 1764, 44 (Christiansoe).— Bonnaterre, Tabl. Enc. Meth.,i, 1790, 

 83.— Leach Syst. Cat. Mam., etc., Brit. Mus., 1816, 40.— Temminck, Man. 

 d'Orn., 2d ed., ii, 1820, 764; pt. 4, 1840, 470.— Sabine (E.), Parrj''s First Yoy., 

 1821, App., p. eciv (North Georgian Islands).— Boie, Isis, 1822, 562, 875.— 

 Meyer, Taschenb.,Zusat.,iii. 1822, 195.— Brehj!, Beitr. Vogelk.,iii, 1822, 770; 

 Lehrb., 1824, 710.— Sabine (J.), Franklin's Jour., 1823, App., 695 (Hudson 

 Bay).— Richardson, Parry's Second Voy., 1825, Suppl.. 358 (Winter Island, 

 n. of Mehdlle Peninsula). — Stephen.s, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. 1, 1826, 

 191.— Ross, Parry's Third Voy., Suppl., 1826, 104.— Werner. Atlas, Palmi- 

 pedes, 1828, pi. 16.— Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1828, 360; Geog. and 

 Comp. List, 1838, 63.— Vieillot, Faun. Fran<;., Ois., 1828, 393.— Fleming, 

 Brit. Anim., 1828, 140.— Kaup, Natiirl. Syst., 1829, 58.— Eyton, Cat. Brit. 

 Birds, 1836, 53.— Selby, Brit. Birds, ii, 1833, 504, pis, 96, 96*.— Nuttall, 

 Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 304.— Jenyns, Man. Brit. 

 Verterbr., 1835, 276.— Audubon, Orn., Biog., iii, 1835, 588, pi. 291; v, 1839, 

 638; Synopsis, 1839, 328; Birds Am., 8vo ed., vii, 1844, 163, pi. 448.— Gould, 

 Birds Europe, v, 1837, pi. 434 and text; Birds Great Brit., v, 1873, pi. 59 and 

 text. — Vigors, Zool. Voy. 'Blossom,' 1839, 39.— Naumann, Vog. Deutschl., 

 X, 1840, 379, pi. 266.— Schinz, Eur. Faun., 1840, 379.— Macgillivray, Man. 

 Brit. Orn., pt. ii, 1842, 246; Brit. Birds, v, 1852, 544.— Selys-Longchamps, 

 Faune Beige, 1842, 154. — Schlegel, Rev. Crit., 1844, p. cxxiv, Vog. Nederl., 

 1854, 598, pis. 347, 348; Dier. Nederl. Vogels, 1861, 236; Mus. Pays-Bas, vi, 

 no. 23 (Lari), 1863, 16, part.— Giraud, Birds Long Is., 1844, 169.— DeKay, 

 Zool. New York, ii, 1844, 306, pi. 122, fig. 270, pi. 129, fig. 284, pi. 130, fig. 

 286.— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Anseres, 1844, 169; Cat. Brit. Birds, 1863, 

 232.— Yarrell, Brit. Birds, 2d ed., iii, 1845, 588.— Hewitson, Eggs Brit. 

 Birds, ii, 1846, 445, pi. 127.— Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1849, 86 (Bermuda, in 

 winter). — Degland, Orn., Eur., ii, 1849, 306. — Hurdis, in Jardine's Contr. 



