ORDER LONGIPENNES. 21 



[B 668, 669, C 555, R 674, C 787-] 



GEOG. DIST. Interior of North America, chiefly west of the 

 Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, breeding from 

 Iowa northward ; south in winter through Mexico and Central 

 America to Peru. 



60. Larus Philadelphia (ORD). 



Bonaparte's Gull. 



Sterna Philadelphia ORD, GUTHRIE'S Geog. 2d Am. ed. II. 1815, 



Larus Philadelphia GRAY, List Brit. B. 1863, 235. 

 [B 670, C 556, R 675, C 788.] 



GEOG. DIST. Whole of North America, breeding mostly north 

 of the United States. Not yet recorded from south of the United 

 States, though reported from the Bermudas. 



[60.1.] Larus minutus PALL. 



Little Gull. 



Larus minutus PALL. Reis. Russ. Reichs. III. App. No. 35, 

 1771, 702. 



[B , C , R C .] 



GEOG. DIST. Europe and parts of Asia and Africa ; accidental in 

 Bermuda and on Long Island. 



GENUS RHODOSTETHIA MACGILLIVRAY. 



Rhodostethia MACGIL. Man. Brit. Orn. II. 1842, 253. Type, 

 Larus roseus MACGIL. 



61. Rhodostethia rosea (MACGIL.). 



Ross's Gull. 



Larus roseus MACGIL. Mem. Wern. Soc. V. 1824, 249. 

 Rhodostethia rosea BONAP. Rev. Crit. Orn. Eur. Degland, 1850, 

 201. 



