260 LAEIDiE. 



in autumn, winter, and spring. It occm-s nearly every year, 

 sometimes in large numbers, on the east coast o£ England, and 

 frequently on the south coast. Elsewhere it is an occasional 

 or rare visitor. 



General Distribution. — The Little Grull breeds locally in 

 northern Europe and Asia, from Jutland, Prussia, Grothland, 

 and the Baltic Provinces of Russia, north to Archangel and 

 south to Kazan, Ufa, and Perm, eastwards across Siberia to 

 the Sea of Okhotsk, ranging north on the Obi River to the 

 Arctic Circle. In winter it visits the inland waters of Europe 

 as well as the Mediterranean and north African coasts. 

 It has occurred in the Faeroes, the Bermudas, and Long 

 Island, U.S.A. ; also once in Oudh, northern India. 



Genus RHODOSTETHIA Macciillivray, Man. Brit. Orn, 

 ii. 1842, p.' 252. 



Type : R. rosea (Macgill.). 



B?i5(Josief?i«a=rosy-breasted ; from poJos and arriQos. 



Rhodostethia rosea. Ross' Gull. 



Larus roseus MacgilUvray, Mem. Wern. Soc. v. 1824,. 

 p. 249 : Melville Peninsula, Arctic America. 



Ehodostethia rosea {Macgill.) ; JB. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, 

 p. 192 ; Saunders, Gat. Birds B. M. xxv. 1896, p. 167 ; »(?.. 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 659. 



Bosea = rose-ociloured. 



Distribution in the British I.slands. — A Eare Visitor. It is 

 said to have occurred once near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, Dec. 

 1846 or Feb. 1847. Though generally admitted to the 

 British List the only record is not free from suspicion. 



General Distribution. — Ross' Grull inhabits the Arctic seas 

 and is known to breed on the delta of the Kolyma River, north- 

 east Siberia. It also doubtless breeds in various parts of the 

 Arctic coasts and islands of the far north, as adults have 

 been observed in summer at north Spitsbergen, Franz Josef 



