308 BIEDS OF EGYPT. 



with that colour ; beak yellow, with a broad red patch 

 crossing it, and a black bar near the tip ; gape and eyelids 

 vermilion ; legs yellow ; irides dark brown. 



Entire length 25 inches ; culmen 3 ; wing, carpus to tip, 

 19 ; tarsus 1-9. 



341. Larus leucophthalmus, Licht. White-eyed Gull. 



The present species is to be met with on the Egyptian 

 coast, but does not appear to be at all plentiful. 



Head, nape, and throat black, with a small white patch 

 above and below the eye ; a white border to the black on the 

 neck, shading into dusky ash-colour on the back and sides of 

 the chest ; back and scapulars ashy brown ; tail-coverts and 

 tail white ; wings dusky brown, with white tips to the 

 secondaries ; remainder of the underparts white ; beak red, 

 tipped with black ; legs brownish red ; irides white. 



Entire length 15*5 inches; culmen 1"8; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 12'5 ; tarsus l"?. 



Fig. Bree, B. of Eur. vol. iv. p. 95. 



342. Larus melanocephalus, Natt. Mediterranean Black- 

 headed Gull. 



This species is moderately plentiful in Lower Egypt, espe- 

 cially in the neighbourhood of Alexandria, but is, according 

 to Von Heuglin (Syst. Ueb. p. 69), only a winter and spring 

 visitant. 



Sumvier phimage. — Entire head deep black, with a small 

 white patch above and below the eye ; back and wings pearl- 



