BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 671 
Sredne-Kolymsk (lat. 67° 30’ N., long. 155° E.); also in Alazeia and 
Indigirka basins and Taskhaiakhtag Mountains—possibly also on 
Bennett Island and Cape Baranof, and other Arctic localities; 
recorded elsewhere, but not as breeding, from Melville Peninsula 
(Alagnak, June 23, 1823), Boothia (Felix Harbor), Alaska (Point 
Barrow, Sept. 9 to Oct. 9 and June 9; St. Michaels, 1 specimen, Oct. 
10, 1879; St. George Island, Pribilof group, 1 specimen, May 25, 1911), 
Wrangell Island, Oct., 1879, and June 22-30, 1880; Kamchatka 
(2 specimens without date or definite locality; Bering Island, Dec. 
10, 1895); lat. 84° 40’ north of Spitzbergen, midsummer; Hvidtenland, 
east of Franz Josef Land, July 14, 15; Barents Sea; New Siberia, 
Aug. 16, Sept. 5-20; New Siberian Islands, Aug., 1894; Verkhojansk, 
on Java River, 250 miles inland; casual or accidental on Faroe Islands 
(Suderoe, Feb. 1, 1863), England (Yorkshire), France (Pointe de la 
Roche, coast of Verdée, Dec. 22, 1913), Italy (Cagliori Bay, Sardinian 
Sea, Jan., 1906), and Helgoland (Feb. 5, 1858). 
Larus roseus Macaituivray, Mem. Wern. Soc., v, 1824, 249 (Melville Peninsula, 
n. Keewatin).—Jarpine and Seisy, Illustr. Orn., i, 1826, pl. 14. 
Larus] roseus RicHarpson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 427, footnote (crit.).—Kry- 
SERLING and Buastus, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. xcv, 240. 
Rossia rosea BoNaPaRTE, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 62.—Gray, List Gen. 
Birds, 1840, 78; ed. 1841, 99. 
[Rhodostethia] roseus Brucu, Journ. fiir Orn., 1853, 106 (Kamchatka); 1855, 278 
(monogr.).—BonapartTE, Consp. Av., li, 1857, 230. 
Rhodostethia rosea Bream, Naumannia, 1855, 295; Vogelf., 1855, 344.—LawRENce,. 
in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 856.—Barrp, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 
1859, no. 678.—ReEINHARDT, Ibis, 1861, 18 (Greenland, 1 spec.).—CovEs, 
Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 311 (monogr.); Check List, 1873, no. 557; 24. 
ed., 1882, no. 789; Birds Northwest, 1874, 659 (monogr.).—Frirscu, Vég. 
Eur., 1870, 471, pl. 57, fig. 9 SunpEvaLt, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., 1872, 
136.—Newrton, Arctic Man., 1875, 105.—Saunpers, Ibis, 1875, 484 (Kam- 
chatka; descr. young; crit.); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 208 (monogr.); 
Journ. Linn. Soc., xiv, 1878, 400 (range); Ibis, 1883, 348; ed. Yarrell’s Hist. 
Brit. Birds, iii, 1884, 572; Man. Brit. Birds, 1889, 643; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
xxv, 1896, 167 (Greenland; Point Barrow).—Payrer, Austr. Exped., English 
transl., ii, 1876, 91 (Barents Sea).—Dresser, Birds Eur., viii, 1877, 343, pl. 
594; Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xvi, 1905, 1906, 41, 97 (delta of Kolyma River, 
n. e. Siberia, breeding); Ibis, 1906, 610, in text, pl. 20 (eggs); 1908, 514 (Ben~ 
nett Island; breeding (?); New Siberia) Fr1LpEn, Ibis, 1878, 200 (between 
Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land, summer); Trans. Norwich Soc., iii, 
1881, 209 (Barents Sea)—Ripeway, Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 207 
(Cat. N. Am. Birds, no. 676); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 676.—CLARKE 
(W. E.), Handb. Yorkshire Vertebr., 1881, 81; Ibis, 1898, 262 (Franz Josef 
Land; breeding (?).—Nerutson, Cruise ‘Corwin’ in 1881 (1883), 108 (St. 
Michaels, Alaska, 1 spec., Oct. 10, 1879; Siberian coast near Bering Strait, 
July 1, 1879; crit.); Rep. N. H. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 55 (St. Michaels; Point. 
Barrow).—British ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Union, List Brit. Birds, 1883, 192.— 
Barrp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Water Birds N. Am., ii, 1884, 266.—Mur- 
pocu, Exped. Point Barrow, 1885, 123, pls. 1, 2; Auk, xvi, 1899, 146 [-145] (his- 
torical) —AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Union, Check List, 1886, and 2d ed.. 
