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Young. Chiefly mottled brown on the head, sides of the nock, 

 and mantle ; primaries umbor-hrown ; the secondaries brown, 

 broadly tipped with white and conspicuously bordered tuitJi ivhite 

 along their outer wehs ; tail-feathers white on the upper half, and 

 well-defiaed, unmottled, blackish brown on the terminal portion, 

 with a faint whitish edge ; underparts white : bill horn-colour, 

 blackish at the angle. 



Nestling. Uniform greyish white above, and white below, with a 

 slightly buff tint on the throat : bill black to the angle, the terminal 

 portion yellow ; tarsi and toes brown. 



Obs. This is the only species of Hooded Gull which has unspotted 

 young. 



llah. Black Sea (rare), the Levant, Palestine, Egypt to Nubia, 

 the Red Sea; from the Caspian Sea, across Tnrkestan and Tibet to 

 the Koko-nor, in 100° E. long. ; in winter, the Persian Gulf, the 

 coast of Baluchistan, and India generally as far as Ceylon and 

 Burma. Not in China proper nor in Japan. Fortuitously in 

 England (onco). Eggs laid on sandy coasts : clay-white in colour, 

 with bold dark blotches in strong contrast. 



a. Ad. st. Caspian Sea. Purchased. 



h. (S ad. sk. Caspian Sea, summer (.If oscA- H. Saunders Coll. 



ler). 



c. Pull. sk. Lower Volga, June (ilfosc/jZer). 



d. 5 imm. sk. Lower Volga ( W. SchUlter). 

 «) /• 6 ad. et Lower Volga, May-Juue 



pull. sk. (Miischler). 



g. 2 juv. sk. River Kishon, Palestine, 



winter. 

 h-k. c? 2 ad. et Fayoom, Egypt, Feb.-March 



imm. sk. (G. K S.). 



I. Imm. sk. El Kab, Egypt {G. E. S.). 



m. Imm. sk. Zoulla, Red Sea, June 1868 Tweeddale Coll. 



{W. Jesse). 

 Muscat, Feb. 



Mekran Coast (Capt. Bishop). 

 G wader, Mekran Coast, Feb. 



{A. O. H.). 

 Muucliar Lake, Sind, Jan. 29- 



30. 

 Punjab, Jan. 31 (.1. 0. H.). 



et 



et 



n. 2 ad. sk. 

 o-q. S 2 ad. sk. 

 r-io. (S 2 ad. ; .r-: 



Juv. sk. 

 a'-g'- c? 2 ad 



imm. sk. 

 h', i'. 2 ad 



juv. sk. 

 k' . Juv. sk. 

 I'. Juv. sk. 

 »*', n' . Ad. et iuv. 



sk. 

 o'. 2 ad.; ;/. S 



imm. sk. 

 q'. 2 vix ad. sk. 

 »"'» «'. 2 ]^^'- sk. 



t'. 2 juv. sk. 



«'. Ad. sk. 



V', w'. (S 2 ad. sk. 



H. Saunders Coll. 

 H. Saunders Coll. 

 E. Hargitt Coll. 



Canon Tristram [C.]. 



Shelley Coll. 



Shellev Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume CoU. 



Hume Coll. 



Kashmir. 



Panja, April 1872. 



Kashgar {Dr. Bellew). 



Mehnede ghat, March (A. 



Anderson). 

 Futtehgurh, Nov. {A. A.). 

 Futtehgurh, Apr. & Oct. (.4. 



A.). 

 Khereo district, Feb. 

 Nujjufgliur .Theel, Dec. ."U. 

 Allahabad, Feb. & March (./. 



O. //.). 



Hume Coll. 



F. Stoliczka [C.]. 



India Museum [P.j. 



Seebohm Coll, 



Seebolim Coll. 

 H. Saunders Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



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