LARUS. GABIANUS. 221 



1. Greenland. Saunders Coll. 



2. Iceland. Saunders Coll. 



1. Vardo, Finmark, June. Saunders Coll. 

 8. Vardij (Xordvi). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Spitsbergen (?'. Holland). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Nameless Bay, Novaya Zemlya, Admiral A. Markham [P.]. 



loth June. 



Larus leucopterus, Faber. 



Larus leucopterus, Thien. Fortjiflans. f/es. T'd(/. tab. xci. fig. 2, a-h 

 (1845-54); Ilewitsoti, Fygs Brit. Birds, ii. p. 498, pi. cxx.vi.x. tifj-s. 

 i, ii (1850) : Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 439 (1876) ; Baird, Breicer 

 4- Ridyu\ Water Birds N. Am. ii. p. 216 (1884); Seehohm, Brit. 

 Birds, iii. p. 3.3.3, pi. 51 (1884) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 1 13. 

 pi. 33. fig. 3 (189(3) ; Saunders. Cat. Birds' B.M. xxv.p. 295 (1896) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 142 (1899). 



Leueus leucopterus, Baedeher, Eier Eur. J'off. tab. 39. fig. 2 (185.5-63). 



The eggs of the Iceland Gull appear to be fairly uniform in 

 coloration. The ground-colour varies from a greenish grey to a pale 

 buff and this is marked, in most eggs evenly all over, in a few more 

 densely at the larger end than elsewhere, with spots and blotches of 

 chocolate and dark blackish brown and underlying pale purple. 

 Specimens vary from 2-5 to 2-75 in length, and from 1-75 to 2 in 

 breadth. 



3. Cambridge Bay, Arctic America ^'oy. H.M.S. ' Enterprise.' 



(Capt. VoUiiison). 



6. Greenland. Gould Coll. 



3. Greenland, LStli .June (Ellinr/ren). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Greenland, May (i'. i-^/ieAe;- ; Hargitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). 



1, Greenland, 28th Wav. Seebohm Coll. 



1. Greenland, 14th May (ii. Jtf(V//e/'). Saunders Coll. 



1. Greenland. Saunders Coll. 



2. Iceland {J. H. Dunn; Harffitt Coll.). Seebohm Coll. 



Genus GABIANUS, BrurJi. 

 Gabianus pacificus (Lath.). 



Larus pacificus, Thien. Fortp/lan:. i/es. Tog. tab. xic. fij. 3 (1845-54) • 

 Gould, Handb. Birds Ausfr. ii. p. 385 (1865) : Campbell, Nesfs i- 

 E(/gs Aust.r. Birds, p. 65 (1883) ; North, Nests &,■ Eyas Austr 

 Birds, p. .351, pi. xx. hg. 1 (1889) ; Le Souef, Ibis, 1895, p. 421. 



Gabianus paciKcus, Saunders, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. p. 297 (189G)- 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 143 (1899). 



The eggs of the Pacific Gull in the Collection are pointed 

 ovals, olive-buff in colour, marked with spots and blotches of dark 

 chocolate-brown and underlying pale purple. In two specimens, 

 the markings are small and evenly spread over the shell; in 

 the third they consist of some spots and small blotches and in 



