BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 591 
Breeding on coasts of Greenland (from southern end to las. 70° 
or farther on western side), westward to Cambridge Bay, Victoria 
Land and Boothia Peninsula, eastward to Jan Mayen Land, occurring 
as far northward as lat. 81° 40’ (Fort Conger, May 19 and June 5); 
migrating southward as far as Massachusetts (Boston Harbor, Jan.. 
31, 1880, Feb., 1881), Connecticut (Stamford, Feb. 16 and March 3, 
1894), New York (Rockaway Beach, Long Island, Feb. 6, 1898; Rye, 
March 8, 1894; near Brockport, Sept. 10, 1899; Lansingburg, Nov. 
21, 1888; Oswego, Dec. 28, 1899; Peterboro, Feb. 1, 1884; Ithaca, 
March 17, 1897; Rochester, April 14, 4904), Ohio (Lorain, Dec. 22, 
1888), Ontario (Toronto, Dec. 2, 1898; Port Sydney, April 6, 1898), 
Michigan (Sault Ste. Marie), northeastern Illinois (Lake Michigan, near 
Chicago, ‘‘regular winter resident’’), and Nebraska (Dorchester, Jan. 
15, 1907), in Europe southward to Iceland, Shetland and Faroe 
islands, Scotland, England (Lincolnshire), Wales (Towyn), Cornwall 
(Mounts Bay), Norway, Baltic Sea (rarely) and coast of France. 
(Gulf of Gascony in severe winters). 
Larus argentatus (not of Pontoppidan, 1763) Sasrne, Trans. Linn. Soc., xii, 1819, 
546. 
Larus leucopterus Fasrr, Prodr. Isl. Orn., 1822, 91 (Iceland).—Breum, Beitr. 
Vogelk., iii, 1822, 817; Lehrb., 1824, 715; Ornis, Heft ii, 1826, 187 (Elbe). 
—Bonaparts, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1828, 361; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 
63.—Kavp, Natiirl. Syst., 1829, 28—Swarnson and Ricuarpson, Fauna 
Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 418.—Lzsson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 617.—Nurraut, Man. 
Orn. U. 8. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 305—-AupuzBon, Orn. Biog., iii, 
1835, 553, pl. 282; Synopsis, 1839, 327; Birds Am., 8vo ed., vii, 1844, 159, pl. 
447,—Eyton, Cat. Brit. Birds, 1836, 53.—Scuinz, Europ. Fauna, 1840, 378.— 
TEmMINCK, Man. d’Orn., 2d. ed., pt. 4, 1840, 467. WERNER, Atlas, Palmipédes, 
1840, pl. 19.—Naumann, Vog. Deutschl., x, 1840, 367, pl. 265.—Maceinu- 
vray, Man. Brit. Orn., pt. ii, 1842, 247; Brit. Birds, v, 1852, 566.—Srnys- 
Lonecusames, Faune Belge, 1842, 154.—YarreEt., Brit. Birds, i, 1843, p. 
xi (Lincolnshire, England).—Scuiecet, Rev. Crit., 1844, p. cxxv; Vog. 
Nederl., 1854, 595, pl. 342; Dier. Nederl. Vogels, 1861, 234; Mus. Pays-Bas, 
vi, no. 23 (Lari), 1864, 5—Dzetanp, Orn. Eur., ii, 1849, 310.—Ksarr- 
BOLLING, Danm. Fugle, 1852, 340, pl. 41; Suppl., 1854, pl. 22, figs. 1, 2.— 
Hewrrtson, Eggs Brit. Birds, ii, 1856, 498, pl. 139, figs. 1, 2—LawreENce, 
in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 843; Auk, i, 1884, 240 (Peterboro, 
New York, Feb. 1, 1884.)—Barrp, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 658.—REIN- 
HARDT, Ibis, 1861, 17 (Greenland).—Covzs, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 
294 (monogr.); Check List, 1873, no. 544; 2d ed., 1882, no. 769; Birds North- 
west, 1874, 622 (monogr.)—Gray, Cat. Brit. Birds, 1863, 230.—NrEwron, 
in Baring-Gould’s Iceland, 1863, 418.—Drcianp and GErsBx, Orn. Eur., 
ii, 1867, 411.—Frirscu, Vég. Eur., 1870, 473, pl. 56, fig. 6.—Drosrs, Journ. 
fiir Orn., 1869, 386 (Faroe Islands)—Hartine, Handb. Brit. Birds, 1872, 77.— 
Patmén, Finlands Fogl., 1873, 589 (Finland?); ‘Vega ’-Exped. Vetensk., 1887, 
369, foot note (not found in Siberia or Bering Sea).—Finscu, Abh. Nat. 
Ver. Bremen, v, 1873, 364 (s. Greenland).—Coizetr, Forh. Selsk. Chris- 
tiania, 1873, 293 (n. Norway).—Harvir-Brown, Proc. N. H. Soc. Glasgow, 
1878, 210 (Forth, Scotland).—Nrwron, Arctic Man., 1875, 106 (Greenland).— 
Dresser, Birds Europe, viii, 1876, 439, pl. 606—Nenson, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 
