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the spaces in the series above; below these three spots a ragged or 

 irregular band across each side of nape, the two separated by a con- 

 siderable interval, and still lower, on hindneck two or three spots of 

 rather indefinite form and arrangement; three small loral spots, 

 arranged longitudinally; a spot above each eye, and several irregular 

 large spots on lower portion of head, rather less distinctly defined 

 than the others. 



Adult male. — Wing, 486; tail, 198; exposed culmen, 68; tarsus, 75; 

 middle toe, 69.° 



Adult feiriale.—Wmg, 465-494 (479.5); tail, 185-201 (192); ex- 

 posed culmen, 59.5-62 (60.7); tarsus, 73-77 (75); middle toe, 

 69-74.5 (71.7).^ 



Breeding along Atlantic coast of North America, from Nova 

 Scotia (Halifax, Kentville, Pictou), Anticosti Island, Quebec (God- 

 bout; Point de Monts), Newfoundland, and coast of Labrador, 

 northward to western coast of Greenland, as far as lat. 73° (Uper- 

 navik), Iceland, Shetland Islands, and thence to northern Russia 

 (Petchora River); migrating southward to New Jersey, casuaUy to 

 Florida (St. Augustine, winter 1894-95), Cuba, and Bermudas (Dec, 

 1851, Dec. 27, 1862), in the interior to Yates County and Buffalo, 

 New York, Toronto, Ontario, Olentangy River at Columbus, Ohio 

 (Dec. 16, 1907), northeastern Illinois (Lake Michigan, near Chicago), 

 and Mackinac Island and near Detroit (March, 1904), Michigan, and 

 on eastern side of Atlantic Ocean to Azores, Canary Islands, and 

 (more rarely) shores of Mediterranean Sea, casually to coast of Senegal, 

 western Africa. 



[Lams] marinns Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 136 (e. Sweden); ed. 12, i. 

 1766, 225.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 598.— Lathaji, Index Orn., 

 ii, 1790, 813.— Martens, Journ. fur Orn., 1859, 223 (Bermudas).— Gray, 

 Hand-list, iii, 1871, 112.— Coues, Key N.Am. Birds, 1872, 312.— Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, i, 1899, 141. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 

 no. 2, 1899, 57. 



Larus marinus Muller, Nat. Syst., ii, 1773, 346. — Fabricius, Fauna Groen- 

 landica, 1780, 102.— Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 58.— Mohr, Island. 

 Naturh., 1786, 42. — Retzius, Fauna Suecica, 1790, 156. — Bonnaterre, Tabl. 

 Enc. M^th., i, 1790, 84.— Bechstein, Naturg. Deutschl., ii, 1791, 815— Wolf 

 and Meyer, Naturg. Vog. Deutschl., Heft xx, 1805, 58, with pi.— Tem- 

 minck. Cat. Syst., 1807, 185; Man. d'Orn., 1815, 490; 2d ed., ii, 1820, 760: iv, 

 1840, p. 471.— Meyer and Wolf, Tasohenb. Vog. Deutschl., ii, 1810, 

 465. — Meyer, Vog. Liv-u. Esthl., 1815, 230. — Meisner and Schinz, Vog. 

 Schweiz, 1815, 266.— Nilsson, Orn. Suec, 1817, 164.— Cuvier, Regne Anim., 

 Ois., 1817, 340, Atlas, pi. 92.— Sabine, Trans. Linn. Soc, xii, 1818, 543 

 (Baffin Bay).— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxi, 1818, 507; Faun. 

 Fran?., Ois., 1828, 392.— Brehm, Vogelk., iii, 1822, 756; Lehrb., 1824, 735; 

 Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 731; Vogelf., 1855, 338.— Stephens, Shaw's Gen. 



o One specimen, from France. 



^Two specimens from Labrador and Massachusetts, respectively. 



