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[Larus minutus Pallas. Little Gull. [60.1.] 



Lams minutus Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, III, 1776, 702. (Berezof, 

 Tobolsk, Siberia.) 



Range. — Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. Breeds in northern 

 Europe and Asia; south in winter to the Mediterranean; accidental 

 in Bermuda and on Long Island, New York.] 



Genus RHODOSTETHIA Macgillivbay. 



Rkodostethia Macgiluvrat, Manual Brit. Om., II, 1842, 252. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Larus rossii Richardson = Larus roseus Macgillivbay. 



Rhodostethia rosea (Macgillivbay). Ross's Gull. [61.] 



Larus roseus Macgilliyray, Mem. Wemerian Soc, V, 1824, 249. (Ig- 

 loolik, Melville Peninsula.) 



Range. — Arctic regions. Breeds in delta of Kolyma River, 

 northeastern Siberia; migrates to Kamchatka, north coast of Alaska, 

 Melville Peninsula, west coast of Greenland, and Arctic islands of 

 Europe; casual in England, Faroe Islands, and Helgoland. 



Genus XEMA Leach. 



Xema Leach, in Ross's Voy. Baffin's Bay, 1819, App., Ivii. Type, 

 by monotypy, Larus sabini Sabine. 



X6ma sdbini (J. Sabine). Sabine's Gull. [62.] 



Larus sabini Sabine, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XII, Pt. 2, 1819, 522, pi. 

 29. (Near Melville Bay, west coast of Greenland.) 



Range. — Arctic regions to South America. Breeds on the coast of 

 Alaska from Kuskokwim River to Norton Sound, and in northern 

 Mackenzie, northern Keewatin, and northern Greenland, and on 

 Arctic islands of Europe and Asia; in migration on both coasts of 

 United States and casual in the interior; winters in Peru. 



