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south to New Jersey, and casually to Virginia, Bermuda, and the Great Lakes; 

 accidental in Missouri, Colorado, and Wyoming. 



6. Rissa tridactyla pollicaris RIDGWAY. Pacific Kittiwake. [40a.] 



Rissa tridactyla pollicaris RIDGWAY, in Water Birds N. A., II, 1884, 202. 

 (St. George Island, Bering Sea.) 



RANGE. Coasts of North Pacific, Bering Sea, and adjacent Arctic Ocean. 

 Breeds from Cape Lisburne and Herald Island south to Aleutian and Com- 

 mander islands; winters from Aleutian Islands south to northern Lower 

 California ; casual at Point Barrow. 



Rissa brevirostris (BRUCH). Red-legged Kittiwake. [41.] 



Larus brevirostris BRUCH, Journ. fur On., 1853, 103. (Northwestern 

 America.) 



RANGE. Coasts and islands of Bering Sea; accidental in Yukon. 



GENUS LARUS LINNAEUS. 



Larus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 136. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Larus canus LINNAEUS (Gray, 1855). 



Larus hyperboreus GUNNERUS. Glaucous Gull. [42.] 



Larus hyperboreus GUNNERUS, in LEEM, Beskr. Finm. Lapper, 1767, 226 

 (note). (Northern Norway.) 



RANGE. Arctic regions. Breeds from northwestern Alaska, Mel- 

 ville Island, and northern Greenland south to Aleutian Islands, north- 

 ern Mackenzie, central Ungava, and on Arctic islands of Eastern 

 Hemisphere; winters from the Aleutians and Greenland south to 

 Monterey, California, the Great Lakes, and Long Island, and casually 

 to Bermuda, North Carolina, and Texas; in Europe and Asia south 

 to the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian seas, and Japan. 



Larus leucopterus FABER. Iceland Gull. [43.] 



Larus leucopterus FABER, Prodromus Isl. Orn., 1822, 91. (Iceland.) 



RANGE. Arctic regions. Breeds from Victoria Land (Cambridge 

 Bay) and Boothia Peninsula to central Greenland and east to 



