260 



LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS — LONGIPENNES. 



According to Tcmminck it foods ou insects an<l worms ; and on several occasions 

 where it was shot in Great Britain it was found in company with different spoeios 

 of Terns. 



Gknus RHODOSTETHIA, Macoillivuay. 



/.•(),«/((, r.osAP. f'oni|t. l-ist, 18:JS, 6i {ty[H', Luru.i rnseii.t, Mac(iii,l. ; not of OWEV, 1838). 

 Rhodustelhin, Macisili.. Man. I!rit. Oni. II. 1842, 253 (.siiiiiv tyiic). 



Qen. Cn.vii. "Ijtxly nuMlnrale ; nock ratliiT short; la-iul ovatu ; bill sliort, rallitT .slt'iider : 

 \i\i\H'T inaiuliblu with its ilorsal mitline iii-arly strai,i,'ht for lialf its h'ii;,'tli, arcuate-dueurvate tow rd 

 the end ; lower niandihle witli the inleivnual siiace narrow, the knctt slij^lit, the dorstd lini! ro.i- 

 cave, the tip narrow ; legs short ; libiiu bare for a very sliort . , ace ; lar.sii.s rather stout, anterinrlv 



H. rosea, summer adult, 



Hcntellate, rongli behind ; first tiK' short, witli a large curved claw ; anterior toes nuiderate, will) 

 tiu'ir Webs entire ; claws rather large, arched, compressed, acute ; ]duniage soft and lull ; wiii^^ 

 long, rather narrow, |)ointed ; tiiil cuneale, of twelve feathers, of which the central ovm nmch laigiT 

 than the lateral" (Macoii.livuay). 



A single sp'cies only is known, tiii.s being one of the rarest of the i'aniily ; no specimen having' 

 until very recently cunte to any American collection. 



Rhodostethia rosea. 



ROaS'S OULL; WBDOE-TAILED OULL. 



Lnrus ros4-u.i, Macoim- Mi'ni.Wmi. Snc. V. lf<-2l, 24'.). — .Iaim). & Si:i.nv, Ilhistr. Oin. 1828, pi. II. 



r.ni-us {lih<HlosMhi<i) i-oseus, HlMTII, .1. f. (I. 18.'.;i, Klfl. 



Khmlimlelhiii roMn, I.AWii. in llaird's B. N. Am. IS.'.S, Sfirt. — Uaiuh, Cat. N. Am. 11. IS."".!*, no. (i7S. 



Oil-Ks, IV. Ac. Nut. Sri. I'liila.l. 18tJ2, all ; Key, 1872, 31(1 ; Check l.i^l, lS7;i, no. r.r.Z ; 2.1 -.1. 



18.12, no. 7S!t ; II. N. W. 1S7», li.'itt. — SArsKKits, Uns, ISTfl, 484 ; I'. Z. S. 1878, 208. — Hiin.w, 



Noin. N. Am. IJ. 18,S1, no. »;7tl. 

 Larun liossii, Hi.ii. App. I'uiry's 2.1 Voy. 182.'), 3.10 (.Melville IV'nin.sula) ; F. IJ. A. II. 1831, 427. 



Ni-rr. Man. II. 1834, 295. — Aid. Orn. Hiog.V. 1839, 324 ; Synop. 1839, 323 ; II. Am. VII. 111. 



130. 

 lHuHloHMhia «<wiii, Maccim. Mnii. Orn. II. 1842, 253. 



IIab. Region of Melvilli' Peninsula, chietly. Disco Bay; IIelij,'olaiid ; Faroes j Yorksliiiv, 

 England ; Point Harrow, .\laskn, and .Xntic Oiean north of Siberia ;' Kamtsi Imtka ? 



Sp. ("hau. AiIuIi, ill s II III me I- : "I'ulnr. Scapulars, interscapulars, and Imtli suifai'es of llic 



' For full list of the K|H'cinu'ii!i (rlevcn in mnnlM'i) known to exist in cuilrction.i to that date, see tlif 

 "IhU," 1875, p. 487. 



