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brehm’s arrangement, &c. 
2. Peregrine garrot. Cl. peregrina, Brehra. 
3. Short billed garrot. Cl. glaucion, Brehm. 
4. Small billed garrot. Cl. angustirostris, Brehm. 
Second Division . 
Glacial garrots. Clangula? glaciales. 
1. Icelandic glacial garrot. Cl. hiemalis. 
2. Faber’s gl. garrot. Cl. Faberi, Brehm. 
3. Large tailed gl. garrot. Cl. megauros, Brehm. 
4. Short tailed gl. garrot. Cl. musiea, Brehm. 
5. Broad billed gl. garrot. Cl. glacialis, Brehm. 
6. Short billed gl. garrot. Cl. brachyrhynchos, Brehra. 
Genus XIII. 
Goosander. Mergus. 
First Division . 
White goosanders, or smews. Mergi albelli, (Mergus albellus, Lin- ) 
1. Large white smew. M. albellus, Lin. 
2. Small white smew. M. minutus, Lin. and Brehm. 
Second Division. 
Goosanders. Mergi merganseres, ( Mergus merganser, Lin.) 
1. Icelandic goosander. M. merganser, Lin. 
2. Northeastern goosander. M. castor, Lin. and Brehm. 
Third Division. 
Mergansers. Mergi longirostres, (Mergus serrator, Lin. ) 
1. High crowned long billed merganser. M. serrator, Lin. ^ 
2. Flat crowned long billed merganser. M. leucomelas, Lin. *** 
Brehm. 
LARUS , GULL. 
46. LARUS BRACHYRHYNCIIUS , RICHARDSON. 
SHORT-BILLED MEW GULL. 
Genus, Lams, Finn Ch. Sr. Larus brachyrhynchus , roshj 
abbreviato crassiusculo, tarso vix bi-unciali, remigibus ftp*, 
concoloribus ; spatio albo duorum exteriorum abbreviate : tec 
dibus nigrescentibus. — Sr. Ch. Short-billed Mew Gull> w ?. 
a short, thickish bill ; a tarsus scarcely two inches long ; <l ul 
not tipped with white ; a short white space on the two exten 
ones, and blackish shafts. 
“ Our specimen of this gull is a female, killed on ^ 
23d of May, 1826, at Great Bear Lake. Some bron'J* 
