$>30 BIRDS or INDIA. 



^, Xemw, ^x.%\\^j of smaller size ; feet longer wd ipQre sl?a(Jey,5-^ 



' Ijreft. LAHtrg, Linn, (as restricted). 



■ oyn. LlupeUarus, non. „ 



ou-rr ' ■ : . - : ■ ^ui 



,^ C%ar. — Bill moderately long, strong, deep, much compressed ; 



wings long, exceeding the tail ; head and neck white, in winter 



streiaked with brown. Of somewhat large size. , ,, 



978. Larus fuscus, LiNN^us. 



^- Gould, Birds of Eui-ojiev'pT. W31-^LTrTHVeair.^l!6^5--i-^Si^ 

 Cat. 407. ^' -'J^^-J^^iJ^f^^ .••■'' '^^ 



iuijj ,.;,.j'. .r.iiruTfi^liliiESSER BlACK-BACKED GuLL. -1,., j,a,u ovxJaij 



" ^^"scK— in' summer plumage, head, neck, upper tail-eoveM',* ana' 

 tail pure white ; body above, including the wing-coverts, greyish- 

 black; scapulars black, tipped with white; quills black, this Isi' 

 (and sometimes the 2nd quill) with a white spot near the tip ^' 

 and the secondaries with a large border of the same colour. 



Bill citron-yellow, red at the lower angle ; eyelids orange ; 

 irides pale yellow ; feet dull yellow. ' Length about 2 feet ; wing 

 18'tpl9 inches; tail 8 r bill at front l-i^ ; tarsus 21 ' i ' ''« "'"'^^ 

 ' In winter the head, round the eyes, and the upper' pai't of th^^ 

 neck are streaked longitudinally with light brown ; and the young 

 are more or less spotted with brown throughout. "^ 



I obtaine'd a young bird of this species far inland, near Jaulnairi.' 

 the Deccan, and have not again observed it, nor has it, that I am 

 aware, been procured by any one else. Major Tickell, indeed, 

 informed me that he had frequently seen in the harbour at Akyab ' 

 a 'lairge black-backed gull, which was probably this species ; oif'^ 

 could it have been Lao'us marinus? 



The lesser black-backed gull is found throughout the northern 

 and temperate parts of the old world, breeding in Britain, ofteii ' 

 far inland, and laying three or four oil-green eggs blotched with 

 brownish-black. 



