BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 671 



Sredne-Kolymsk (lat. 67° 30' N., loog. 155° E.); also in Alazeia and 

 Indigirka basins and Taskhaiakhtag Mountains — possibly also on 

 Bennett Island and Cape Baranof, and other .Arctic localities; 

 recorded elsewhere, but not as breeding, from Melville Peninsula 

 (Alagnak, June 23, 1823), Boothia (Felix Harbor), Alaska (Point 

 Barrow, Sept. 9 to Od. 9 and June 9; St. Michaels, 1 specimen, Oct. 

 10, 1879; St. George Island, Pribilof group, 1 specimen. May 25, 1911), 

 Wrangell Island, Oct., 1879, and June 22-30, 1880; Kamchatka 

 (2 specimens without date or definite locality; Bering Island, Dec. 

 10, 1895) ; lat. 84° 40' north of Spitzbergen, midsummer; Hvidtenland, 

 east of Franz Josef Land, July 14, 15; Barents Sea; New Siberia, 

 Aug. 16, Sept. 5-20; New Siberian Islands, Aug., 1894; Verkhojansk, 

 on Java River, 250 miles inland; casual or accidental on Faroe Islands 

 (Suderoe, Feb. 1, 1863), England (Yorkshire), France (Pointe de la 

 Roche, coast of Verdee, Dec. 22, 1913), Italy (Cagliori Bay, Sardinian 

 Sea, Jan., 1906), and Helgoland (Feb. 5, 1858). 



Laras roscus Macgillivray, ]\Iem. Wern. Soc, v, 1824, 249 (Melville Peninsula, 

 n. Keewatin). — Jardine and Selby, Illustr. Orn., i, 1826, pi. 14. 



L[arus] roscus Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 18.31, 427, footnote (crit.). — Key- 

 SERLiNG and Blasius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pjj. xcv, 240. 



Rossia rosea Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 62. — Gray, List Gen. 

 Birds, 1840, 78; ed. 1841, 99. 



[Rhodostcthia] roseus Bruch, Joum. fiir Orn., 1853, lOG (Kamchatka); 1855, 278 

 (inonogr.). — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 230. 



Rhodostethia rosea Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 295; Vogelf., 1855, 344. — Lawrence, 

 in Baird, Rep. Pacific-R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 856.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 678. — Reinhardt, Ibis, 1861, 18 (Greenland, 1 spec). — Coues, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 311 (monogr.); Check List, 1873, no. 557; 2d 

 ed., 1882, no. 789; Birds Northwest, 1874, 659 (monogr.).— Fritsch, Vcg. 

 Eur., 1870, 471, pi. 57, fig. 9.— Sundevall, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., 1872, 

 136.— Newton, Arctic Man., 1875, 105.— Saunders, Ibis, 1875, 484 (Kam- 

 chatka; descr. young; crit.); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 208 (monogr.); 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, xiv, 1878, 400 (range); Ibis, 1883, 348; ed. Yarrell's Hist. 

 Brit. Birds, iii, 1884, 572; Man. Brit. Birds, 1889, 643; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XXV, 1896, 167 (Greenland; Point Barrow). — Payer, Austr. Exped., English 

 transl., ii, 1876, 91 (Barents Sea). — Dresser, Birds Eur., viii, 1877, 343, pi. 

 594; Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905, 1906, 41, 97 (delta of Kolyma River, 

 n. e. Siberia, breeding); Ibis, 1906, 610, in text, pi. 20 (eggs); 1908, 514 (Ben- 

 nett Island; breeding (?); New Siberia). — Feilden, Ibis, 1878, 200 (between 

 Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land, summer); Trans. Norwich Soc, iii, 

 1881, 209 (Barents Sea).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 207 

 (Cat. N. Am. Birds, no. 676); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 676.— Clarke 

 (W. E.), Handb. Yorkshire Vertebr., 1881, 81; Ibis, 1898, 262 (Franz Josef 

 Land; breeding (?).— Nelson, Cruise 'Corwin' in 1881 (1883), 108 (St. 

 Michaels, Alaska, 1 spec, Oct. 10, 1879; Siberian coast near Bering Strait, 

 July 1, 1879; crit.); Rep. N. H. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 55 (St. Michaels; Point 

 Barrow). — British Ornithologists' L^nion, List Brit. Birds, 1883, 192. — 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Am., ii, 1884, 266. — Mur- 

 doch, Exped. Point Barrow, 1885, 123, pis. 1, 2; Auk, xvi, 1899, 146 [-145] (his- 

 torical). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d ed.. 



