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LARIDA—continued. 
America. 
Banister, in Alaska and the Upper Yu- 
kon. It ranges from Labrador down 
the coast and along the great lakes and 
rivers as far as Texas, and also visits 
Cuba and Bermuda. (Howard Saun- 
ders. ) 
Larus affinis. 
One specimen from Greenland. (Proff. 
Reinhardt.) 
Larus occidentalis.* Audubon. 
Pacific coast of North America down to 
Magdalena Bay, Lower California. 
(Howard Saunders.) 
This and the last connect with LZ. fuscus, 
but may be distinguished by the com- 
paratively larger foot of the herring 
gulls. 
Larus canus. 
A specimen taken by Dr. Coues at 
Henley Harbour, Labrador, 21st 
August, 1860. (Howard Saunders, 
P.Z.S , 1878, p. 178.) 
Larus marinus.* Linn, 
Rare in Northern Greenland; breeds in 
Labrador; occurs on the great lakes 
of North America, and visits Florida 
in winter. Bermudas. (Howard 
Saunders.) 
Europe. 
probably Z. lewcopheus is referred to. 
( Dresser.) 
It has been reported more than 15° S. 
of the equator. (?) (Howard Saun- 
ders.) 
Larus cachinnans.* Pall. L. leucopheus. 
Licht. (Yellow-legged Herring Gull.) 
This variety of the herring gull is dis- 
tinguished by the darker mantle, yel- 
low legs and feet, and deep orange-red 
ring round the eye; and Mr. Howard 
Saunders considers it entitled to specific 
rank; he givesits range as throughout 
the Mediterranean, Black Sea, from 
the mouth of the Volga to the shores 
of the Caspian Sea, across the Ural 
River and Kirgish steps to the Irtich 
and Lake Baikal; Red Sea; and in 
winter the Persian Gulf, and south to 
Kurrachee ; China and Japan. He 
has also a specimen from Havre. 
Larus ajinis. Reinh, 
Messrs. Seebohm and Harvie Brown 
found it breeding on the Petchora, 
where it arrives from the south about 
the 11th of May. Mr. Hume found 
it in winter about Kurrachee (his Z 
occidentalis). Found in the Red Sea, 
Beloochistan coast, Novaya Zemlya, 
and the Sea of Okhotsk. (Howard 
Saunders. ) 
Larus canus.* Linn. (Common Gull.) 
Northern and Western Europe, Mediter- 
ranean coasts. Rare in Egypt; more 
common in Algeria. Siberia, and 
southward into China; not uncommon 
on the Lower Amoor. (Dresser.) 
‘‘ Few species differ so much in individual 
size.” “ Off Japan all sizes are found.” 
(Howard Saunders. ) 
Larus marinus.* Linn. 
backed Gull.) 
Scandinavia to North Cape. Not in 
Spitzbergen. Common in North- 
Western Europe to the north coast 
of France, below which it is rare, 
(Great Black= 
