BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 689 
Arctic and subarctic coasts, islands, and larger inland waters, 
northward to at least 81° 40’ N. latitude; breeding in Alaska (islands 
of Agattu, Kiska, and Amchitka, Aleutian chain; Glacier Bay; 
Kodiak; Kowak River; Point Barrow), Mackenzie (Stone Island 
and eastern end of Great Slave Lake; mouth of Mackenzie River), 
Keewatin (York Factory), Hudson Strait, western coast of middle 
and southern Greenland (Godhaven; etc.), Banks Land (Bay of 
Mercy), Melville Island (Winter Harbor), and, in Eastern Hemis- 
phere, on Iceland, Shetland, and other Scottish islands, northern Nor- 
way, northern Russia (lower Petchora River; Archangel; Russian 
Lapland; Habarova; Kanin Peninsula; Novaya Zemlya), Jan Mayen 
Land, Franz Joseph Land, Spitzbergen, and along or near Arctic coast 
of Siberia (Kolyma delta; Golchika, Yenesei River) to Kamchatka 
(Bering Island); southward in migration as far as southern Brazil 
(Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 4, June 20; Sao Paulo, Oct. 26-28, 1912), 
Argentina (Tuya, Ajé, Feb. 21, 1909), Peru (Callao Bay), Chile (Val- 
paraiso Bay, Feb.), Cape of Good Hope, Persian Gulf, and seas near 
Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand; not recorded from Mexico, 
except Lower California (30 miles off San Pedro Martir Island, July 10, 
1905), nor any part of Central America, and few records for West 
Indies (Barbados, July 10, 1888; at sea between St. Vincent and Car- 
riacou); in the United States recorded from Maine, New Hampshire 
(Seabrook, Sept. 2, 1897), Massachusetts, Rhode Island (Charles- 
town Beach, Sept. 2, 1897), New York (Little Gull Island, Aug. 6-16, 
1888; Orient, Long Island, Sept. 13, 1907; Gowanus Bay, Long 
Island, Oct., 1842; Sodus Bay, Aug. 28,1910; North Hamlin, Nov. 16, 
1894; Herkimer County, Aug. 22, 1886), New Jersey (Stone Harbor, 
May 27, 1901; Atlantic City), North Carolina (Cape Lookout, fall of 
1897), South Carolina (Charleston, occasional in Nov.), Florida (Marco , 
winter of 1884), Pennsylvania (Erie, Oct. 15, 1874; Renovo, June 18, 
1911), Ohio (Sandusky Bay, Oct. 6, 1895, Sept. 13 and 20, 1899, Nov., 
1895), Michigan (Detroit River, Nov. 27, 1903), Iowa (Keokuk, Oct. 
6, 1896; Eagle Lake, near Britt, Sept. 20, 1905), Missouri (Billings, 
Aug., 1905), Kansas (near Lawrence, Oct. 10, 1898), Nebraska (near 
Lincoln, Sept. 13, 1898), Colorado (Boulder, Dec.; Sloans Lake, near 
Denver, fall of 1889; near Pueblo, fall of 1894), Washington (Tacoma, 
Sept. 17, 1896; Bellingham Bay, Oct. 28, 1893), and California (Mon- 
terey Bay, Aug. 1, 1892, Aug. 4, 1894; Hyperion, Los Angeles County, 
Dec. 18, 1911; Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Sept. 29; San Diego, 
Dec. 16, 1884; Santa Barbara, Dec.; Ventura County, winter; Hum- 
boldt Bay). 
[Larus] parasiticus Linnasus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 136 (coast of Sweden) ; 
ed. 12, i, 1766, 226.—Guexin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 601.—Latnam, Index 
Orn., ii, 1790, 819. 
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