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BULLETIN" 292, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
October 4-5, 1899 (Bishop); southwestern British Columbia, aver- 
age November 5, latest November 29, 1888; and Klamath Lake, 
Oreg., November 7, 1909 (Lewis). 
[LITTLE GULL. Larus minutus Pallas. 
The little gull is only a straggler in North America. Its regular summer home is 
in northern Europe and northern Asia, whence it retires in winter as far south as the 
Mediterranean and the Adriatic. It is found at this latter season in northern Africa 
and in northern India. Its claim to a place in the North American list rests on a few 
specimens taken at widely separated times and places: Bermuda, January 22, 1849, 
and one in February, 1849 ( Wedderburn) ; Fire Island, Long Island, one about 
September 15, 1887 (Dutcher); 
Rockaway Beach, Long Island, 
one May 10, 1902 (Braislin); and 
Pine Point, Scarborough, Me., one 
July 20, 1910 (Norton).] 
ROSS'S GULL. ETiodostetliia 
rosea (Macgilliyray). 
Range. — Arctic regions of 
both hemispheres in sum- 
mer; win ter home unknown. 
The first eggs known to 
science of Ross's gull were 
taken June 13, 1905, at 
Pokhodskoe, near the center 
of the delta of the Kolyma 
River, Siberia (Buturlin). 
They were already incu- 
bated, but incubation could 
not have been far advanced, 
for the first arrival, a single 
bird, was not seen until 
May 30, though the species 
Yia.29.-J.ime guinLaru.minum). became common the next 
day. Eggs nearly hatched were collected June 26, and young 2 to 
3 days old on July 1. Eggs were also taken June 13 at Malaya, 
about 150 miles to the westward of Pokhodskoe. The birds were 
equally common in this region in 1911 and nested in large num- 
bers in swamps north of the town of Nijni Kolymsk, in the upper 
part of the delta, latitude 68° N., longitude 161° 30' E. The next 
season the whole coast was searched, from these swamps to the 
northern end of the delta and along the Arctic coast eastward for 
150 miles to Chaun Bay, but not a breeding colony could be found; 
one stray individual was taken May 3, 1912, at Nijni Kolymsk (Thayer 
and Bangs). 
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