BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 629 
Northern Europe and Asia, from Iceland (rare and not breeding) , 
Faro, Shetland, Orkney, and other British Islands and Norway to 
eastern Siberia and Kamchatka; breeding from about lat. 53° north- 
ward; migrating southward as far as Canary Islands, Mediterranean 
and Black seas, China, and Japan; accidental in Labrador (Henley 
Harbor, Aug. 21, 1860) ?¢ 
[Larus] canus Linn.aus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 186 (Sweden); ed. 12, i, 1766, 
224.—Briinnicu, Orn. Bor., 1764, 43 (Iceland),—Gmetin, Syst. Nat., i, 
pt. ii, 1789, 596.—Latuam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 815.—Gray, Hand-list, 
iii, 1871, 111, no. 10945.—Suarpz, Hand-list, i, 1899, 142. 
Larus canus Scorpou, Ann. I, 1769, 79.—Miitumr, Nat. Syst., ii, 1773, 345.— 
Retzius, Fauna Suecica, 1790, 158.—Bxrcustein, Naturg. Deutschl., ii, 1791, 
808.—Meyer and Wotr, Taschenb., ii, 1810, 475.—Lztster, Nachtr. Deutschl., 
1812, 14.—Meyer, Vog. Liv-u. Esthl., 1815, 232; Taschenb., iti, 1822, 200.— 
“TemMINCcK, Man. d’Orn., 1815, 498; 2d ed., ii, 1820, 771.—Mrisner and 
Scuinz, Vég. Schweiz, 1815, 269.—Kocu, Syst. baier. Zool., 1816, 374.— 
Lzacu, Syst. Cat. Mam., etc., Brit. Mus., 1816, 40.—Nizsson, Orn. Suec., ii, 
1817, 172.—Bots, Isis, 1822, 563.—Breum, Lehrb., 1824, 707; Isis, 1830, 994.— 
SrepHens, Shaw’s Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. 1, 1826, 198.—Patzas, Zoogr. Rosso- 
Asiat., ii, 1826, 330.—Bonaparts, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1828, 359; Geog. and 
Comp. List, 1838, 63.—Virituot, Faun. Frang., Ois., 1828, 389.— WERNER, 
Atlas, Palmipédes, 1828, pl. 24.—Fiemina, Brit. Anim., 1828, 140.—Kaup, Na- 
tirl. Syst., 1829, 58.—Savi, Orn. Tosc., iii, 1831, 59.—SeE.By, Brit. Birds, ii, 1833, 
490, pl. 93.—Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vertebr., 1835, 275.—Eyrton, Cat. Brit. Birds; 
1836, 52.—Govutp, Birds Europe, v, 1837, pl. 437 and text; Birds Great Brit., 
v, 1873, pl. 60 and text.—Naumann, Voég. Deutschl., x, 1840, 301, pl. 261.— 
Seiys-Lonecnamrs, Faune Belge, 1842, 153.—Macemutvray, Man. Brit. 
Orn., pt. ii, 1842, 248; Brit. Birds, v, 1852, 575.—Yarrewu, Brit. Birds, iii, 
1843, 452; 2d ed., iii, 1845, 570—Scutecet, Rev. Crit., 1844, p. cxxv; Vog. 
Nederl., 1854, 599, pl. 349; Dier. Nederl. Vogels, 1861, 236; Mus. Pays-Bas, 
vi, no. 23 (Lari), 1863, 23.—Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Anseres, 1844, 171; 
Cat. Brit. Birds, 1863, 233 —Hrwitson, Eggs Brit. Birds, ii, 1846, 441, pl. 
125.—Der@tanp, Orn. Eur., ii, 1849, 313—THompson, Birds Ireland, iii, 
1851, 348.—KyaERBO.iine, Danm. Fugle, 1852, 339, pl. 42.—MippznporrFr, 
Sibir. Reise, ii, pt. 2, 1853, 243.—Hrvatin, Syst. Ueb., 1856, 69 (coast Egypt); 
Orn. N. O-Afr., Bd. ii, pt. 2, 1873, 1877 (Nile up to Khartum).—Mever, 
Brit. Birds, vii, 1857, pl. 304—Scurenox, Reis. Amurl., 1859, 509.—LinpErR- 
MAYER, Voég. Griechenl., 1860, 175.—SwinHog, Ibis, 1860, 68 (Amoy, s. 
China); 1861, 345 (n. China); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 420 (China).— 
SUNDEVALL, Svensk. Fogl., 1863, pl. 49, fig. 6 -Newron, in Baring-Gould’s 
Iceland, 1863, 418 (1 spec.).—Rappz, Reis. Sibir., Vég., 1863, 387; Orn. 
Caucas., 1884, 478.—Satvavorr, Ucc. Sardin., 1864, 128; Faun. Ital., Ucc., | 
1872, 292; Ucc. Ital., 1887, 286.—Wricut, Ibis, 1864, 151 (Malta); 1874, 238 
(Malta). —Dze@uanp and Gersp, Orn. Eur., ii, 1867, 424.—Locur, Expl. Sci. 
Algér., Ois., ii, 1867, 184.—Hoxrz, Journ. fiir Orn., 1868, 124 (Gottland, 
@ The specimen on which the alleged Labrador record is based is still in the collec- 
tion of the U. 8. National Museum, and ‘‘found its way to the British Museum’’ 
(Cooke, Distribution and Migration of North American Gulls and their Allies, 1915, 
49)—or, more correctly, to Mr. Howard Saunders, the expert authority on birds of this 
group—and was duly returned many years ago. It isa young bird, and I strongly 
suspect is merely L. delawarensis. 
