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Laras califomicus LAWRENCE. California Gull. [53.] 



Larus californicus LAWRENCE, Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y., VI, 1854, 79. 

 (Near Stockton, California.) 



RANGE. Western North America. Breeds from east central 

 British Columbia and Great Slave Lake south to northeastern Cali- 

 fornia, northern Utah, and northern North Dakota; winters from 

 southern British Columbia and Great Salt Lake to Lower California 

 and western Mexico; accidental in Kansas. 



Laras delawarensis ORD. Ring-billed Gull. [54.] 



Larus delawarensis ORD, in GUTHRIE'S Geog., 2d Am. ed., 1815, 319. 

 (Delaware River, below Philadelphia.) 



RANGE. North America. Breeds from southern British Columbia, 

 Great Slave Lake, southern Keewatin, and southern Ungava south to 

 southern Oregon, southern Colorado, northern North Dakota, central 

 Wisconsin, central Ontario, northern New York (casually), and north- 

 ern Quebec; winters from British Columbia, the Great Lakes, and 

 Massachusetts south to Bermuda, the Gulf coast, Cuba, and southern 

 Mexico. 



Laras brachyrhynchus RICHARDSON. Short-billed Gull. [55.] 



Larus brachyrhynchus RICHARDSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 

 422. (Fort Franklin, Great Bear Lake, Mackenzie.) 



RANGE. Western North America. Breeds from Kotzebue Sound 

 to Anderson River and south to northern British Columbia and Great 

 Slave Lake; winters from southern British Columbia to southern 

 California; accidental in Quebec. 



[Laras canus LINNAEUS. Mew Gull. [56.] 



Larus canus LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 136. (Sweden.) 



RANGE. Northern Europe and Asia; south in winter to the Med- 

 iterranean, the Nile, and Persian Gulf; accidental in Labrador (?).] 



