64 BULLETIN 2 02, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGEICULTUEE. 
(NordenskiokT : just north of Bennett Island, in July. 1881 (De 
Long 1 : in the delta of the Lena River. July S. 1SS3 (Bunge) — the 
conditions here are so similar to those of the nesting site that it 
would not be surprising if eventually the bud should be found breed- 
ing in the Lena Valley: Hvidtenland. just east of Franz Josef Land, 
earliest July 14. 1895, common the next day Xansem : Disco. Green- 
land. June 15, 1885 Seebohm); and Point Barrow. Alaska. June 9, 
1898 (Stone). The last two records are probably of stragglers, but 
the others would indicate a summer nonbreeding range on the Arctic 
coast and islands from longitude 173 c W. to longitude 63 c E., nearly 
2,000 miles in this latitude. 
The most extensive migrations occur in September and the most 
notable of these so far recorded are those witnessed by Murdoch at 
Point Barrow. Here the first birds were seen September 28, 1881, and 
the species was common for a month, literally thousands passing, all 
going toward the northeast. A similar flight was witnessed the next 
year, when the species was abundant from September 10 to October 9. 
TVhen the same place was visited in the fall of 1897, only two indi- 
viduals were seen, one on September 9 and the other September 23 
Stone . Similar flights of large flocks of the buds were seen by 
Birulia. near the New Siberian Islands, in 1901 and 1902. Young 
birds of the year were abundant September 11, 1901, near Bennett 
Island, and the next year flocks of young appeared at New Siberia 
August 16. followed by flocks of old birds September 5. After 
this both were abundant September 11—15, and disappeared Sep- 
tember 20. 
Northeast of the New Siberian Islands, in about latitude 81° N., 
Nansen saw S buds in early August. 1894, during the drift of the 
From. The naturalists of the Jeannette saw them in October, 
1S79. near Wrangell Island, and on October 10, 1879, a lone indi- 
vidual appeared at St. Michael, Alaska (Nefeon . 
The winter home of Hoss's gull is entirely unknown. Stragglers 
have been taken at this season on Bering Island. December 10, 1895 
Stejneger); two at Oagliari Bay. in the Sardinian Sea. in early 
January. 1906 (Martorelli) ; one at Pointe de la Roche, on the coast 
of Vendee. France. December 22. 1913 -Sequin): one on Suderoe 
Island of the Faroe group. February 1. 1S63 (Mueller): and one 
on Helgoland. February o. 1S5S (Gatke). Even stragglers have 
not been noted anywhere during March and April or before late May. 
when the birds arrived at their breeding grounds in the delta of the 
Kolyma River, and were also noted in migration at Verkhojansk, on 
the Java River, 250 miles from the coast and about the same distance 
west of the most western known breeding colony. Inhabitants of 
this latter place reported that visits of this gull were unusual and 
that it did not breed in that district. Another spring bird, but 
