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[tertials] dark brown tipped with white; primaries sooty on both 

 webs, adjoining the shafts, and white on the remainder of the inner 

 webs; the extreme tips white, increasingly so on the inner primaries, 

 until at the 7th the whole terminal portion is white; tail-feathers 

 with a broad subterminal blackish band, which diminishes from the 

 outer rectrices till lost with the increasing age of the bird. Practically 

 the duration of the immature stage is very short, the primaries with 

 dark undersides being assumed in the second autumn."'^ 



Adult male.— Wing, 213.5-219 (216.2); tail, 90-94.5 (92.2); ex- 

 posed culmen, 22-24 (23); tarsus, 23.5-25.5 (24.5); middle toe, 

 23.5-24.5 (24).^ 



Adult female.— Wing, 210-221 (215.5); tail, 86-95.5 (90.7); ex- 

 posed culmen, 23-25 (24); tarsus, 23.5-24 (23.7); middle toe, 23.5- 

 24 (23.7).^ 



Breeding in subarctic and temperate Europe and Asia, from British 

 Islands to eastern Siberia, mouth of Anmr River, and Sea of Okotsk 

 (but not in Mongolia nor China) ; migrating southward to shores of 

 Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas; accidental in northern 

 India, on Faroe Islands, in Bermudas (Jan. 22 and Feb., 1849), on 

 Long Island, New York (Fire Island, Suffolk County, Sept. 15, 1887; 

 Eockaway Beach, May 2, 1902), and in Maine (Pine Point, near Scar- 

 borough, July 20, 1910). 



[?] Lams albus (not of Gunnerus, 1767) Scopoli, Anu. I. Hist. Nat., 1769, 80. 



Lams minutus Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, iii, 177G, 702 (Berezof, Tobolsk, 

 Siberia); Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat., ii, 1826, 331. — Retzius, Fauna Suecica, 1790, 

 278.— Meyer and Wolf, Taschenb., ii, 1810, 488.— Temminck, Man. d'Orn., 

 1815, 508; 2d ed., ii, 1820, 787; pt. 4, 1840, p. 490.— Meyer, Vog. Liv-u. 

 Esthl., 1815, 237; Taschenb., iii, 1822, 205.— Leach, Syst. Cat. Mam., etc., 

 Brit. Mus., 1816, 41.— Meisner and Schinz, Vog. Schweiz, 1815, 277.— 

 NiLSsoN, Orn. Suec, ii, 1817, 179.— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 

 xxi, 1818, 499.— Brehm, Lehrb., 1824, 727.— Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., 

 xiii, pt. 1, 1826, 206.— Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1828, 358.— Werner, 

 Atlas, PalmipMes, 1828, pi. 31.— Savi, Orn. Tosc, iii, 1831, 68.— Selby, 

 Brit. Birds, ii, 1833, 484, pi. 92.— St. Hilaire, Expl. Moree, Zool., 1833, 55, 

 Atlas, pi. 5.— Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vertebr., 1835, 271. — Naumann, Vog. 

 Deutschl., X, 1840, 242, pi. 258; Anhang, xiii, 1847, 275.— Selys-Long- 

 champs, Faune Beige, 1842, 151.— Yarrell, Brit. Birds, iii, 1843, 426; 2d 

 ed., iii, 1845, 543.— Degland, Orn. Eur., ii, 1849, 330.— Thompson, Birds 

 Ireland, iii, 1851, 315. — Middendorff, Reis. Sibir., Zool., 1851, 245 

 (Yakutsk).— Kjaerbolling, Danm. Fugle, 1852, 334, pi. 41; Suppl., 1854, 

 pi. 22, figs. 1, 2. — LiLUEBORG, Naumannia, 1852, 110 (descr. eggs). — 

 Brandt, in Lehman's Reis. n. Buchara, 1852, 330 (Caspian Sea). — Hewitson, 

 Eggs Brit. Birds, ii, 1856, 490, pi. 136, fig. 1.— Sciilegel, Vog. Nederi., 

 1854, 604, pis. 355, 356; Dier. Nederi. Vog., 1861, 238; Mus. Pays-Bas, ^n, no. 

 23, 1863 (Lari), 42.— IIeuglin, Syst. Ueb., 1856, 70 (Egypt); Orn. N. O.- 

 Afr., Bd. ii, pt. 2, 1873, 1409 (lower Egypt).— Meyer, Brit. Birds, vii, 1857, 

 118, pi. 300.— Lawrence, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 853.— 

 Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 671.— Irby, Ibis, 1861, 246 (Jehangira- 



a Saunders, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxv, 1896, 176. b Two specimens. 



