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the spaces in the series above; below these three spots a ragged or 
irregular band across each side of nape, the two separated by a con- 
siderable interval, and still lower, on hindneck two or three spots of 
rather indefinite form and arrangement; three small loral spots, 
arranged longitudinally; a spot above each eye, and several irregular 
large spots on lower portion of head, rather less distinctly defined 
than the others. 
Adult male.—Wing, 486; tail, 198; exposed culmen, 68; tarsus, 75; 
middle toe, 69.% 
Adult female.—Wing, 465-494 (479.5); tail, 185-201 (192); ex- 
posed culmen, 59.5-62 (60.7); tarsus, 73-77 (75); middle toe, 
69-74.5 (71.7)2 
Breeding along Atlantic coast of North America, from Nova 
‘Scotia (Halifax, Kentville, Pictou), Anticosti Island, Quebec (God- 
bout; Point de Monts), Newfoundland, and coast of Labrador, 
northward to western coast of Greenland, as far as lat. 73° (Uper- 
navik), Iceland, Shetland Islands, and thence to northern Russia 
(Petchora River); migrating southward to New Jersey, casually to 
Florida (St. Augustine, winter 1894-95), Cuba, and Bermudas (Dec., 
1851, Dec. 27, 1862), in the interior to Yates County and Buffalo, 
New York, Toronto, Ontario, Olentangy River at Columbus, Ohio 
(Dec. 16, 1907), northeastern Illinois (Lake Michigan, near Chicago), 
and Mackinac Island and near Detroit (March, 1904), Michigan, and 
on eastern side of Atlantic Ocean to Azores, Canary Islands, and 
(more rarely) shores of Mediterranean Sea, casually to coast of Senegal, 
western Africa. 
[Larus] marinus Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 186 (s. Sweden); ed. 12, i, 
1766, 225.—Guewin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 598.—Latuam, Index Orn., 
ii, 1790, 813.—Marrtens, Journ. fir Orn., 1859, 223 (Bermudas).—Gray, 
Hand-list, iii, 1871, 112.—Covrs, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 312.—SuHarre, 
Hand-list, i, 1899, 141.—Forses and Rosinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, 
no. 2, 1899, 57. 
Larus marinus Miter, Nat. Syst., ii, 1773, 346.—Fasricius, Fauna Groen- 
landica, 1780, 102.—Bopparrt, Tabl. Pl. Enl., 1783, 58.—Mogr, Island. 
Naturh., 1786, 42.—Rerzius, Fauna Suecica, 1790, 156.—BonNnateRRE, Tabl. 
Enc. Méth., i, 1790, 84.—Brcustern, Naturg. Deutschl., ii, 1791, 815—WoLF 
and Meyer, Naturg. Vég. Deutschl., Heft xx, 1805, 58, with pl.—Tem- 
MINCK, Cat. Syst., 1807, 185; Man. d’Orn., 1815, 490; 2d ed., ii, 1820, 760; iv, 
1840, p. 471.—Mryrer and Worr, Taschenb. Vég. Deutschl., ii, 1810, 
465.—Meyer, Vég. Liv-u. Esthl., 1815, 230.—Metsner and Scurnz, Vég. 
Schweiz, 1815, 266.—Nitsson, Orn. Suec., 1817, 164.—Cuvizr, Régne Anim., 
Ois., 1817, 340, Atlas, pl. 92.—Sasninez, Trans. Linn. Soc., xii, 1818, 5438 
(Baffin Bay).—Vintiot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xxi, 1818, 507; Faun. 
Frang., Ois., 1828, 392.—Breum, Vogelk., iii, 1822, 756; Lehrb., 1824, 735; 
Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 731; Vogelf., 1855, 338.—STreruens, Shaw’s Gen. 
@ One specimen, from France. 
6 Two specimens from Labrador and Massachusetts, respectively. 
