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14. RHODOSTETHIA. ^^ 



Rossia*, Bp. Comp. List. B. Eur. ^ N. Amer. p. 62 (1838) . R. rosea. 

 Rhodostetliia, Macyill. Man, Brit. Orn. pt. ii. p. 252 



(1842) R. rosea. 



Rhodestethia, Tacsan. M4m. Ac. St. Petersb. xxxix, p. 1048 



(1893) R. rosea. 



Range. Circumpolar : exceptionally to about 54° N. lat. in 

 winter. 



1. RhodostetMa rosea. 



Larus roseus, Mncgill. Mem. Wern. Soc. v. no. xiii. p. 249 (1824: 

 Melville Peninsula) ; Jard. .^ Selby, III. Orn. i. pi. xiv. (1826) ; 

 Kei/s. ^ Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. xcv & p. 420 (1840). 



Larus rossii, Richardson, App. Farn/s 2nd Voy. p. 359 (1825 : Mel- 

 ville Peninsula, June 1823) ; J. Wilson, III. Zool. pi. Yiii._ (1831) ; 

 J. C. Boss, Ap2>. Boss's 27id Toy., Nat. Hist. p. sxxvi (1835: 

 Felix Harbour, Boothia); Audub. Orii. Biogr. v. p. 324 (1839) ; 

 id. Synopsis, p. 323 (1839) ; Sw. ^- Bich. F. Bor.-Ain., ii. Birds, 

 p. 427 (1831); J. a Boss, App. Parry's 4th Voy. p. 195 (1828: 

 Spitsbergen & Waigatz Str.) ; Schl. Bev. Crit. p. cxxviii (1844) ; 

 Begl. Orn. Eur. ii. p. 332 (1849) ; Yarr. Brit. B. 2nd Suppl. p. 5» 

 (1856) ; id. op. cit. 3rd ed. iii. p. 558 (1856) ; Naum. Vcig. Deustchl., 

 Anhang, xiii. p. 270, taf. 388. figs. 1-2 (1860) ; Fischer, Natur. 

 Tids. (3) iii. (1864: Faeroes; cf. Ibis, 1865, p. 103); Harting, 

 Sandb. Brit. B. p. 173 (1872) ; Gould, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 1 ; Bunge, 

 Mel. Biol. xii. livr. 1, p. 57 (1884: Lena delta) ; Seebohm, Hist. 

 Brit. B. iii. p. 305 (1885) ; id. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 82 (Discii, Green- 

 land) ; id. Tr. Nonv. Soc. iv. p. 303 (1886 : Lena delta) ; Gdtke, 

 Vogelwarte Helgol. p. 580 (1891). 



Larus richardsoni, Lesson, H. N. Mam. et Ois. ix. p. 516 (1837). 



Rossia rosea, Bp. Comp. List, p. 62 (1838 : type of genus) ; id. Cat. 

 Ucc. Eur. p. 79 (1842) ; Gray, List Gen. p. 78 (1840) ; id. ed. 

 1841, p. 99. 



Rhodostethia rossi, Macgill. Man. Brit. Orn. pt. ii. p. 253 (1842) ; 

 Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 653, pi. 180. fig. 4 (1846) ; Macgill. Brit. B. 

 T. p. 618 (1852) ; Beichenb. Syst. Nat. tab. v. (1850) ; id. Av. Syst. 

 Nat., Longip. pp. iv, v (1852) ; Gray, Cat. Brit. B. p. 229 (1862) ; 

 id. Hand-l. B. iii. p. Ill (1871); Gould, B. Gt. Brit. v. pi. 63 

 (1873) ; Bp. C. B. xiii. p. 771 (1856) ; Degl. ^ Gerbe, Orn. Eur. 

 ii. p. 403 (1867) ; Feild. Zool. a. s. p. 3287 (1872 : Fisroes) ; Newton, 

 P. Z. S. 1875, p. 349 (Greenland). 



Rhodostethia rosea, Bruch, J. f. O. 1853, p. 106 (Kamschatka) ; 

 Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 295 ; id. Vogelf. p. 344 (1855) ; 

 Baird, Cass., Sf Lawr. B. N. Amer. p. 856 (1858) ; Bp. Consp. Av. 

 ii. p. 230 (1857); Beinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 18 (Greenland); Fritsch, 

 Vbg. Eur. p. 471, tab. 57. fig. 9 (1870) ; Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. 

 p. 136 (1872) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 316 (.1872) ; id. B. N.- 

 West, p. 659 (1874) _; Newto?i, Arctic Man. p. 105 (1875) ; Saunders, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 484 ( juv., Kamschatka) ; Payer, Austriaii Exped. ii. 

 p. 91 (1876 : Eng. trans. ; Barents Sea) ; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. 

 p. 343, pi. 594 (1877) ; Feilden, Ibis, 1878, p. 200; Saunders, P. Z. S. 

 1878, p. 208 (revision); id. Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 400 (1878: 

 distribution); Feilden, Tr. Norw. Soc. iii. p. 209 (1881: Barents 

 Sea) ; Bidgw. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 52 (18S1) ; W. E. 



* Characters not given ; moreover the name Rossia had been applied by 

 Owen in 18oo to a genus of Mollusca. 



