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Breeding from Maine (coast from Penobscot Bay eastward; near 
Houlton), Nova Scotia, New York (near Wilmert; Adirondack 
region; Hamilton County; Herkimer County; Four Brothers, Lake 
Champlain), southern Ontario, islands in Lake Huron north of lat. 44° 
N. (Little Charity Island, Saginaw Bay; etc.), Lake Michigan (The 
Sisters and Strawberry Island, Green Bay; Grand Island), Minnesota 
(Mille Lacs; near Grand Marais), Manitoba (Shoal Lake; Lake Winni- 
peg; etc.) and British Columbia (Sabine Lake) northward to Alaska 
Peninsula (Stepovak Bay), central Alaska (near Mount McKinley; mid- 
dle Yukon Valley), northern Mackenzie (Arctic coast), Melville Island, 
Wellington Channel, King Oscar Land, and Cumberland Sound (lat. 67° 
N.); breeding in Europe and western Siberia from Iceland to northern - 
_ Russia (White Sea) and southward to British Islands and northern 
France; migrating southward, more or less regularly, as far as Ber- 
mudas, Bahamas, Cuba (Cardenas; Matanzas), Florida (Gulf coast 
and Lake Okeechobee), coast of Texas (Corpus Christi; Fort Brown), 
Yucatan (off Progreso, March 22), Lower California (mouth of 
Colorado River; Cerros Island) and Tepic, western Mexico (Isabella 
Island; Tres Marias Islands), European migrants passing southward 
to Canary Islands, Madeira, and Mediterranean and Caspian seas. 
Larus argentatus Ponropripan, Danske Atlas, i, 1763, 622 (Denmark).—Brinnicu, 
Orn. Bor., 1764, 44 (Christiansoe).—BonnatErrg, Tabl. Enc. Méth., i, 1790, 
83.—Leacu Syst. Cat. Mam., etc., Brit. Mus., 1816, 40.—Tremmincr, Man. 
d’Orn., 2d ed., ii, 1820, 764; pt. 4, 1840, 470.—Sanrne(E.), Parry’s First Voy., 
1821, App., p. cciv (North Georgian Islands).—Bors, Isis, 1822, 562, 875.— 
Meyer, Taschenb., Zusit.,iii, 1822, 195.—Breum, Beitr. Vogelk., iii, 1822, 770; 
Lehrb., 1824, 710.—Sastve (J.), Franklin’s Jour., 1823, App., 695 (Hudson 
Bay).—RicHarvson, Parry’s Second Voy., 1825, Suppl., 358 (Winter Island, 
n. of Melville Peninsula) —SrerHens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. 1, 1826, 
191.—Ross, Parry’s Third Voy., Suppl., 1826, 104.—Werrner, Atlas, Palmi- 
pédes, 1828, pl. 16.—Bonararre, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1828, 360; Geog. and 
Comp. List, 1838, 63.—VistttoT, Faun. Frang., Ois., 1828, 393.—FLEmne, 
Brit. Anim., 1828, 140.—Kaup, Natiirl. Syst., 1829, 58.—Evyron, Cat. Brit. 
Birds, 1836, 53.—SE.By, Brit. Birds, ii, 1833, 504, pls, 96, 96*—NurrTaLt, 
Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 304.—Jenyns, Man. Brit. 
Verterbr., 1835, 276.—AupuBON, Orn., Biog., iii, 1835, 588, pl. 291; v, 1839, 
638; Synopsis, 1839, 328; Birds Am., 8vo ed., vii, 1844, 163, pl. 448.—GouLp, 
Birds Europe, v, 1837, pl. 434 and text; Birds Great Brit., v, 1873, pl. 59 and 
text.—Viaors, Zool. Voy. ‘Blossom,’ 1839, 39.—Naumann, Vég. Deutschl., 
x, 1840, 379, pl. 266.—Scuinz, Eur. Faun., 1840, 379.—Maccinuivray, Man. 
Brit. Orn., pt. ii, 1842, 246; Brit. Birds, v, 1852, 544.—SrLys-LoNGCHAMPS, 
Faune Belge, 1842, 154.—Scuuece, Rev. Crit., 1844, p. exxiv, Vog. Nederl., 
1854, 598, pls. 347, 348; Dier. Nederl. Vogels, 1861, 236; Mus. Pays-Bas, vi, 
no. 23 (Lari), 1863, 16, part.—Griraup, Birds Long Is., 1844, 169.—DrKay, 
Zool. New York, ii, 1844, 306, pl. 122, fig. 270, pl. 129, fig. 284, pl. 180, fig. 
286.—GRAY, List Birds Brit. Mus., Awnares, 1844, 169; Cat. Brit. Birds, 1863, 
232.—YARRELL, Brit. Birds, 2d ail. ., ii, 1845, 588. —Hewirtson, Eggs Brit. 
Birds, ii, 1846, 445, pl. 127.—Jarpte, Contr. Orn., 1849, 86 (Bermuda, in 
winter).—Dra@Lanp, Orn., Eur., ii, 1849, 306. Ham, in Jardine’s Contr. 
