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Count E. Aniiioni De"H Oddi on 



any author with whose work I am acquainted. For com- 

 parison I give the description of the Yellow-legged Herring- 

 Gull in a similar state of plumage. 



Fi-. 12. 



Head oi Z,(iriis cachiiiii(i?is. 



Yellow-leyged Ilerrimj-GvU (Larus cachinnans), yoioig niafe 

 in first dress, but able to fly. — Island of Capiaja 

 (Tuscany), June U, 1901. Prof. Daraiani [C.]. 



Bill blackish, horn-coloured at the end, paler at the base 

 of the lower mandible ; iris dark hazel ; head and neck 

 whitish buff, with a broad, elongated, blackish-brown central 

 stripe, which here and there is so expanded that no light pattern 

 is visible ; darker beneath the eves and on the auricular 

 region; a blackish spot in front of the e\e; the back, 

 mantle, innermost secondaries, and wing-coverts almost 

 blackish, with a broad huffish marginal edge, which is 

 more or less suffused with grey ; this is still broader and 

 more whitish on the rump, with the two colours in great 

 contrast; upper tail-coverts whitish buff', with blackish spots 

 and bands ; chin and throat white, a little huffish and uni- 

 form ; under-parts uniform huffish grey, with large, dark, 

 blackish centres or irregular blotches, very distinct on the 

 sides of the neck and flanks and quite obsolete elsewhere, 

 so tliat these parts appear to be unifoi'm in ground-colour ; 



