46 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



it possible it might be breeding there, though I failed to find any 

 sign of a nest. This is the only time I have observed the bird so 

 late in the season. {Rev. C.J. Young.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



One specimen shot at False Bay, Lasqueti Island, Gulf of 

 Georgia, B.C., by Dr. G. M. Dawson, 1885 >' two taken at Toronto 

 and Ottawa, and three at Indian Head, Assa. 



Of eggs of this species we have only one, taken at Black Lake, 

 Assa., June loth, 1891, by Mr. Raine. 



60.1. Little GuU. 



Larus minutus Pall. 1771. 



A specimen obtained on Sir John Franklin's first expedition, 

 was determined by Mr. Sabine to be a young bird of the first 

 year of this species, exactly according with Mr. Temminck's 

 description. {Richardson^ 



XXIII. RHODOSTETHIA Macgillivray. 1842. 

 61. Ross's Gull. Cuueate-tailed Gull. 



Rhodostethia rosea (Macgil.) Bonap. 1850. 



This is both a rare and a far northern species. Four specimens 

 have been received by the Museum at Copenhagen, from Green- 

 land, three of which were shot in Disco Bay, and the fourth near 

 the Sukkertop. {Arct. Man.) Two specimens of this gull were 

 killed on the coast of Melville Peninsula, on Sir Edward Parry's 

 second voyage. Commander Forster also found this species in 

 Waygate Strait, which is probably one of its breeding places. 

 (Richardson.) Found breeding at Ekomiut, in the district of 

 Christianshaab, Greenland, August isth, 1885. {The Auk, April, 

 1885.) A young bird of this species was taken near St. Michael, 

 Norton Sound, on October 15th, 1879. {Nelson.) Abundant at 

 Point Barrow, autumn visitors only. They appeared in large, loose 

 flocks, coming in from the sea from the southwest and evidently 

 going northeast. None seen to return in the spring. They 

 likely breed north of Wrangel Island. {Murdoch.) 



