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brehm’s arrangement, &c. 
2. Peregrine garrot. Cl. peregrina, Brehm. 
3. Short billed garrot. Cl. glaucion, Brehm. 
4. Small billed garrot. Cl. angustirostris, Brehm. 
Second Division . 
Glacial garrots. Clangulse 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. musica, Brehm. 
5. Broad billed gl. garrot. Cl. glacialis, Brehm. 
6. Short billed gl. garrot. Cl. brachyrhynchos, Brehm. 
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. and 
Brehm. 
LARUS , GULL. 
46. LAEUS BEACH YEHYNCHUS, RICHARDSON. 
SHORT-BILLED MEW GULL. 
Genus, Larus, Finn. — Ch. Sp. Larus hrachyrhynchus , rostro 
abbreviato crassiusculo, tarso vix bi-unciali, remigibus apice 
concoloribus ; spatio albo duorum exterior um abbreviate : rachi- 
dibus nigrescentibus. — Sp. Ch. Short-billed Mew Gull, with 
a short, thicldsh bill ; a tarsus scarcely two inches long ; quills, 
not tipped with white ; a short white space on the two exterior 
ones, and blackish shafts. 
u Our specimen of this gull is a female, killed on the 
23d of May, 1826, at Great Bear Lake. Some brown 
