558 



NA TA TORES. 



LAEIDJE. 



THE CUNEATE-TAILED GULL. 



Larus Rossii. 



Larus Rossii, Cuneate-tailed Gull, KICK, and SWAINS, Faun. Bor. 



Amer. Birds, vol. ii. p. 427. 

 Rhodostethia Rossi, Ross's Rosy Gull, MACGILL. Man. Brit. Birds, vol. ii. 



p. 252. 



WILSON'S Illust. Zool. vol. i. pi. 8. 

 JAKD. and SELBY, Ornith. Illust. 



vol. i. pi. 14. 



GRAY and MITCH. Gen. of Birds, 

 vol. iii. pi. 180. 



Larus Rossii, 

 Rosens, 



Rhodostethia Rossii, 



FROM the Fauna Boreali-Americana, as quoted, we learn 

 that two specimens of this Gull were killed on the coast 

 of Melville Peninsula, on Sir Edward Parry's second 

 voyage, one of which is preserved in the Museum of the 

 University of Edinburgh, and the other was presented to 



