ORDER LONGIPENNES. 4] 
[Larus minitus Patias. Little Gull. [60.1.] 
Larus minutus Pauuas, Reise Russ. Reichs, III, 1776, 702. (Berezof, 
Tobolsk, Siberia.) 
RanGE.— Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. Breeds in northern 
Europe and Asia; south in winter to the Mediterranean; accidental 
in Bermuda and on Long Island, New York.] 
GENUS RHODOSTETHIA Macaituivray. 
Rhodostethia MacciLuivRay, Manual Brit. Orn., II, 1842, 252. Type, 
by orig. desig., Larus rossit RICHARDSON = Larus roseus MACGILLIVRAY. 
Rhodostéthia résea (MAcGILLIVRAY). Ross’s Gull. [61.] 
Larus roseus MacGcituivray, Mem. Wernerian Soc., V, 1824, 249. (Ig- 
loolik, Melville Peninsula.) 
RanGE.— Arctic regions. Breeds in delta of Kolyma River, 
northeastern Siberia; migrates to Kamchatka, north coast of Alaska, 
Melville Peninsula, west coast of Greenland, and Arctic islands of 
Europe; casual in England, Faroe Islands, and Helgoland. 
Genus XEMA Leacu#. 
Xema Leacn, in Ross’s Voy. Baffin’s Bay, 1819, App., lvii. Type, 
by monotypy, Larus sabinit SABINE. 
Xéma sabini (J. SaBINE). Sabine’s Gull. [62.] 
Larus sabint SaBine, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XII, Pt. 2, 1819, 522, pl. 
29. (Near Melville Bay, west coast of Greenland.) 
RanceE.— Arctic regions to South America. Breeds on the coast of 
Alaska from Kuskokwim River to Norton Sound, and in northern 
Mackenzie, northern Keewatin, and northern Greenland, and on 
Arctic islands of Europe and Asia; in migration on both coasts of 
United States and casual in the interior; winters in Peru. 
