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l.nNC-WlNllKI) SWIM.MKKS — LONGITENNES. 



According to Temminck it Leeds mi insects and worms ; ami on several occasions 

 where it was shot in Great Britain it. was found in company with different species 

 ni Terns. 



Genus RHODOSTETHIA, Macgiluvray. 



,. Bonap. Comp. lit. 1838, 62 (type, Larits roseus, Macgiu,. j not of Owen, 1888). 

 Rhodostethia, Macqill. Man. Brit. Orn. II. 1842, 253 (same type). 



Gen. Char. "Body moderate; neck rather short; head (.vale; lull short, rather slender; 

 upper mandible with its dorsal outline nearly straight for hall' its length, arcuate-decurvate toward 

 Hie end ; lower mandible with the intercrural space narrow, the knol slight, the dorsal line con- 

 cave, the lip narrow ; legs short ; tibito bare for a very short spare ; tarsus rather stout, anteriorly 



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/,'. rosea, sumim r adult. 



scutellate, rough behind ; first toe short, with a large curved claw ; anterior toes moderate, with 



their webs entire ; daws rather large, arched, compressed, acute ; plumage suit, ami lull ; wings 

 long, rather narrow, pointed ; tail cuneate, of twelve feathers, of which the central are much larger 

 than the lateral " ( M icgillivray). 



A single species only is know n, this being one of the rarest of llu- family ; no specimen having 

 until very recently come to any American collection. 



Rhodostethia rosea. 

 ROSS'S GULL ; WEDGE-TAILED GULL. 

 lams n< x ,,is, Macgiix. Mem.Wern. Sec v. 1824, 249.— Jard. & Selby, Illnstr. Orn. 1828, pi. II. 



| ' | . r.i.eeii, .1. I', (t. IS.",:;, lni;. 



Rhodos , Lawr. in Kaii.l': B.N. Am is;>s, n-k;. Rutin, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 678. — 



Cons, Pr. Ac Nat. Sci. Philad. 1862, 311 ; Key, 1872, 316 ; Check lit. 1873, no. 557 ; '2.1 ed. 



iss-j, no. 789 ; r.. VW. 1874, 659. Saunders, Has, 1875, IM ; 1'. Z. S. 1878, 208.- Ridgw. 



Nom \. Am. I'.. 1881, a-- 676 

 Larus Rossii, Rich. App. Parry's 2d Voy. 1825, 859 (Melville Peninsula) ; l\ B. A. II. 1831, 427.— 



Nerr. Man. II. 1834, 295. Aw. c, n . Biog.V. Is:;;., 324 ; Sump. 1839,323 ; I'.. Am. VII. 1844, 



180. 

 Rhodostethia i;,><sii. Macoill. Man, Orn. II. 1842, 253, 



Hab, Region of Melville Peninsula, chiefly, Disco Bay; Heligoland; Faroes; Yorkshire, 

 England; Point Barrow, Uaskn, and Arctic Ocean north of Siberia; 1 Kamtschatkn 1 



Sp. CHAR. Adult, in summer: "Color. Scapulars, interscapulars, ami both surfaces of the 



1 Foi full list of the specimen! (. leven in number) known to exist in collections to that date, sec the 

 "Ibis," is:;,. ]-. is;. 



