192 LARID^E. 



p. 235; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 543; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 562; 



Harting, p. 76; Dresser, viii. p. 373. 

 Gavia minuta, Macg. v. p. 613. 

 Hydrocoloeus minutus, Gould, v. pi. 66. 

 The Little Gull, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 426. 



Minutus = small. 



An irregular visitant (chiefly in immature, sometimes 

 in winter, and rarely in breeding-plumage) to the eastern 

 and southern coasts of England, and occasionally to those of 

 Scotland. It inhabits temperate Europe, principally the 

 north-eastern portion, and Siberia as far east as the river 

 Lena, visiting North Africa and India in winter. 



\Larus Philadelphia. BONAPAETE'S GULL. 



Sterna Philadelphia, Ord in Guthrie's Geogr. 2nd 

 Amer. ed. ii. p. 319 (1815). 



Gavia bonapartii, Macg. v. p. 610. 



Larus bonapartii, Yarr. ed. 3, iii. p. 554. 



Larus Philadelphia, Gray, p. 235 ; Harting, p. 172. 



Philadelphia, because found at Philadelphia. 



This transatlantic species is said to have occurred in Ire- 

 land, and near Falm^outh, Cornwall. It is common through- 

 out North America. \ 



[Genus RHODOSTETHIA, MacGillivray, Man. Brit. 

 ^ Orn. ii. p. 252 (1842) . 



Bhodostethia rosy-breasted ; from podov + arrjBos. 



Rhodostethia rosea. CUNEATE-TAILED GULL. 



Larus roseus, Macgiltivray, Mem. Wern. Soc. v. p. 249 



(1824). 



Rhodostethia rossii, Macg. v. p. 618; Gray, p. 229; Gould, 

 v. pi. 63. 



