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on sand-banks. The eggs much resemble those of some of the large 

 Terns : e. g. S. cantiaca, S. benjii, &c. 



Larus ydastcs, juv. 



Ilah. South-western Europe and West Coast of Africa, perhaps as 

 far south as Senegambia; Mediterranean, Black, Azoff, and Caspian 

 Seas ; Red Sea to Jeddah ; Mesopotamia, Persian Gulf, Mekran Coast 

 to Karachi. 



a. S ad. sk. Gulf of Corinth, Nov. {Commr. H. Saunders Coll. 



MacFarlane). 



b. 2 ^- ^^- Western Turkey, June (Schliiter). H. Saunders Coll. 



c. Juv. sk. " South Russia." H. Saunders Coll. 

 (l-f. d 9 ad. sk. Kuasib, Black Sea, May-June H. Sauuders CoU. 



(Cullen). 

 g. S imm. sk. Port Said, Egypt (Schliiter). H. Saunders Coll. 



h. $ ad. sk. Jeddah, March 13 (Zohrab). Shelley Coll. 



i,k. cJ9juv.sk. Near Babylon, River Tigris IndiaMuseum[P,]. 



(Commr. Jo?ies). 

 Fao, Persian Gulf, Sept.-Oct. 



I, m. f? ad. ; n, 

 o. Juv. ; p. 

 Vix ad. sk. 



q. 2 ad. sk. 



r. cj ad. sk. 



s-c'. c? $ ad. ; 

 2 vix ad. ; S 

 2 imm. sk. 



d'-k'. c?. 2 ad. 

 et cJ imm. sk. 



Gwader, Mekran Coast, Feb. 

 Ras Malan, Mekran Coast, Nov. 



Karachi, Sind, Feb. (A. O. Hume). 



W. D. Camming, 



Esq. [P.]. 



Hume Coll. 



W. T. Blauford, 



Esq. [C.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Karachi, Sind, March, April, May Hume Coll. 

 {Col. E. A. Butler). 



