424 LARIN A. 
back, tertiaries and secondaries, a delicate pale bluish-grey ; the 
tertiaries and secondaries, and longer scapulars broadly tipped with 
white ; the earlier secondaries, especially with the major portion 
of the inner webs, also white ; edge of the wing about the carpal 
joint white ; primaries—the first with the whole outer web black— 
tipped with white and with a broad white band across both webs 
near the tip; above this band a considerable portion of the 
inner web is black, and the rest pale grey; second primary 
similar, but the white band often entirely wanting or reduced to a 
spot on the inner web only; the black on the inner web of less 
extent than in the first, and the basal portion of the outer web 
the same pale blue-grey as the coverts and the rest of the wing ; 
the third and following primaries have only the white tips and 
no white band, the outer webs become more grey as they recede 
from the second, and the black diminishes on the inner webs 
proportionally, so that on the seventh or eighth it is generally 
reduced to a narrow black band across both webs, or in some 
cases on the outer web only, and in others entirely wanting on 
the last three quills. 
In the winter plumage the nape and the back of the neck 
are striated with pale brown, in some specimens thinly on the 
crown also; legs and feet lemon yellow. 
This Gull is numerous during the winter in the Kurrachee 
Harbour and along the adjacent coast. 
Larus affinis, Rein. 
978ter.—Butler, Deccan; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 439; 
Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 316. 
THe Lesser HERRING GULL. 
g. Length, 242; wing, 17-2; tarsus, 26; bill at front, 2°25. 
@. Length, 22:3; wing, 16:8; tarsus, 2°6; bill at front, 2:1. 
Bill yellow, angle of lower mandible red; irides pale yellow ; 
eyelids yellowish-red. 
Head, crown, neck, and nape white in summer; in winter 
streaked with dusky brown, and with a dusky eye-spot ; chin, 
throat, and breast white; back dark slaty-grey also the greater 
and lesser wing-coverts; primaries dark slaty-grey ; the first 
six tipped with white ; the first with a broad bar and the ex- 
treme tip white, the rest only tipped white; secondaries like 
the back, and tipped with white; some of the tertials also 
tipped with white ; under wing-coverts white; upper and under 
tail-coverts and tail white. 
The Lesser Herring Gull occurs in immense numbers all along 
the coast. 
Larus ichthyetus, Pall. 
979.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 831; Butler, Deccan, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 439; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 
of Sind, p. 319. 
