15. LA.KUS. 241 



the black of tlic inner web extends nearer fco the shaft ; the under 

 wing-Coverts uniform smoke-grey: bill, tarsi, and toes crimson; 

 iris whit(!, eyelid red. Total length 14 inches, culraen I'G, wing 

 10'75, tail 4-7o, tarsus 1*7, middle toe with claw 1'5. 



Birds which are probably younger have duller bills i^nd feet, 

 with less white in the primaries. 



Immifure. Like L. scopulhius, but the quills of a browner black, 

 with rather less white at the same age. 



Hah. South coast of Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to 

 Natal ; also Madagascar, 



a. Imm. st. Cape Colony. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



b. Ad. st. Cape of Good Hope. J. Gould, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. Capo of Good H(jpe. .1. Gould, Esq. 



d. Ad. sk. Cape of Good Hope {E. L. II. Saunders Coll. 



Lnyard) . 

 r, f. Ad. sk. Table Bay, Aug. {E. L. Lay- H. Saunders Coll. 



ard). 

 g. Ad. sk. Natal {Col. H. IV. Feilden). H. Sauuders Coll. 



26. Larus marinus. 



The Great Black and White Gull, Albin, Nat. HUt. B. iii. p. 89, 

 pi. 94 (1740) ; Pennant, Brit. Zool. (fol.) p. 140, pi. 1. (1766) ; id. 

 2nd ed. p. 416 (1788). 



Le Goiland noir, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 158 (1760). 



Larus maiinus, Linn. St/st. Nat. i. p. 225 (1766) ; P. L. S. M'dll. S. 

 N. p. 346 (;1773) ; Mohr, Island Naturh. p. 42 (1786) ; Fabr. 

 Faun. Granl. p. 102 (1780) ; Gm. S. N. i. p. .598 (1788) ; Retzim, 

 F. Snec. p. 150 (1790) ; Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 84 (1790) ; Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. ii. p. 813 (1790) ; Bechst. Natnry. Deutschl. ii. p. 815 

 (1791) ; Wolf ^ Meyer, Natury. Voy. Deutschl. Heft xx. p. 58, 

 cum tab. (1805) ; Meyer ^ Wolf, Taschenb. Toy. Deid^chl. ii. p. 465 

 (1810): Pallas, Zooyr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 321 (1811: Baltic); 

 Meyer, Voy. Liu- u. Esthl. p. 230 (1815) ; Meisner S; Schinz, Vog. 

 Schweiz, p. 266 (1815) ; Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 490 (1815) ; Koch, 

 Syst. Baler. Zool. p. 370 (1816) ; Nibs. Orn. Suec. p. 164 (1817) ; 

 Cuvier, Reyne An., Ois. p. 340, Atlas, pi. 92 (1817) ; E. Sabine, 

 Tr. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 543 (1818: Baffin B., once) ; Temm. Man. 

 d'Orn. 2nd ed. p. 760 (1820) ; Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 562; Brehtn, 

 Voyelk. iii. p. 756 (1822) ; Licht. Verz. Douhl. p. 82 (1823 : Ice- 

 land) ; Brehm, Lehrb. p. 735 (1824); Macyill. Mem. Wern. Soc. 

 V. p. 255 (1824) ; Aicdiib. B. Amer. pi. 241 (c. 1826) ; Vieill. Faun. 

 Franc;., Ois. p. 392 (1828) ; Bp. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. p. 362 (1828) ; 

 Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 17 (1828) ; Fleming, Brit. An. 

 p. 140 (1828) ; Brehtn, VHy. Deutschl. p. 731 (1831) ; Selby, Brit. 

 B. ii. p. 507, pi. xcvii. (1833) ; Nuttall, Man. Orn. ii. p. 308 

 (1834) ; Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vertebr. p. 278 (1835) ; Andub. Orn. 

 Bioqr. iii. p. 305 (1835), and v. p. 636 (1839); Ei/fon, Cat. 

 . Brit. B. p. 53 (1836); Gould, B. Eur. v. pi. 4.30 (1837); Bp. 

 Comp. List B.Eur. ^- N. Amer. p. 63 (1838); Audub. Synop. 

 p. 329 (1839) ; Naum. Vriy. Beutschl. x. p. 438, taf. 268, 269 

 (1840); Schitiz, Enrop. Faun. p. 379 (1840) ; Temyn. Man. d'Orn. 

 6d. 2, 4""= pte. p. 471 (1840) ; Crespon, Orn. Gard, p. 481 (1840) ; 

 Keys, u- Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. xcvii & p. 245 (1840) ; Macyill. Man. 

 Brit. Orn. pt. ii. p. 244 (1842) : Selys-Lonych. Faun. Bely. p. 154 



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