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4. Stercouarius cepphus. liuffon's Skua. 



Lestris Biiifonii, Boie,Isis,lS'22, p. 562; Meyer, Tasclienh.deutsch. 



l"d(]. iii. p. 212 ; Schler/. Rev. Crit. des Ois. d'Eur. p. 135. 

 Lestris i^arasiticus ?, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Amer. p. 430 ; Temm. 



Man. d'Orn. (1840) p. 502 ; Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. An. 



p. 283 ; Eyton, Cat. Brit. B. p. 52. 

 Stercorai'iiis cepphus, G. li. Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 653. 

 Catharacta cepphus, Brdnn. Orn. Bor. p. 36 ; Keys. 4' BJ. Wir- 



heltJi. Eur. p. 95. 

 Cataractes parasitica, Pall. Zoogr. ii. p. 310. 

 Lestris crepidata, Brelim, Voy. Deutschl. p. 724 ; Naum. Voy. 



DeutsM. (1840) x. p. 534, t. 274. 

 Cataractes lougieaudatus, Macyill. Man. N. H. Orn. ii. p. 258. 

 Arctic Jager, Stejjh. Gen. Zool. xiii. pi. 23 ; Eyton, Hist. E. Brit. 



B. p. 55, fig. 

 Buffon's Skua, Yarr. Brit. B. ed. 2. iii. p. 616, fig. ; id. ed. 3. iii. 



p. 635, fig. 



Edwards, Birds, pi. 148 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 442. 

 a. Orkney Islands. From Col. Montagu's Collection. 



2. RHODOSTETHIA. 



Rhodostethia, Macyill. Man. N. H. Orn. ii. p. 252 (1842). 

 Rossia, Pr. Bonap. Geoyr. Comp. List of B. p. 62 (1838). 



1. Rhodostethia Rossii. The Cuneate-tailed Gull. 



Larus roseus, Jard. 6c Selbi/, Illustr. of Orn. pi. 14 ; Keys. Sf El. 



Wirhelth. Eur. p. 95. 

 Larus Rossii, Ricliardson, Parry's 2nd Voy. App. p. 359 ; Schleg. 



Rev. Crit. des Ois. d'Eur. p. 128 ; Milner, in Zool. 1847, p. 1694 ; 



CJiarlesworth, in Zool. 1847, p. 1782; Naum. Voy. Beutschl. 



xiii. t. 388. f. 3, 4. 

 Rossia rosea, Pr. Bonap. Geoyr. Comp. List of B. p. 62. 

 Rhodostethia Rossi, Macyill. Man. N. H. Orn. ii. p. 253 ; 0. R. 



Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 653. 

 Ross's Rosy Gull, Macyill. 

 Cuneate-tailed GuU, Yarr. Brit. B. ed. 3. iii. p. 558, fig. 



Wils. Illustr. of Orn. pi. 8. 



(Yorkshire and Ireland.) 



3. LARUS. 



Larus, Jjinn. S. N. (1735). 

 Gavia, Mcehr. Av. Gen. p. 66 (1752). 

 Leucus, Kaup, Naturl. Sy.^t. p. 86 (1829). 

 Ichthyeatus, Kaup, Naturl. Syst. p. (1829). 



