4.26 LARINA. 
Bill deep red ; irides dark brown ; legs and feet deep red. 
Head and upper part of neck deep reddish-brown, more extend- 
ed in front and on the sides; lower neck white ; eyelids white ; 
upper plumage ashy ; upper tail-coverts and tail white ; first 
four primaries white, tipped and edged with black within, and 
the first with the outer web black ; fifth and sixth nearly all 
black ; the rest of the quills grey ; beneath, from the breast 
white, faintly tinged rosy. ars 
In winter plumage, the head is white with some dusky mark- 
ings on the occiput and ears. 
The Laughing Gull is common all along the coast, and has 
been frequently observed on the larger lakes inland. 
Larus hemprichi, Bp. 
98lter.—Butler, Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 439; 
Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 518. 
THE Sooty GULL. 
Length, 17°5 to 185 ; wing, 13:25 to 13°7 ; tarsus, 2; bill at 
front, 1°8 to 2. 
Bill greenish-drab, tipped yellow, with a subterminal black bar ; 
irides dark brown ; legs and feet greyish-yellow. 
In summer, forehead, crown, nape, chin, and throat, chocolate- 
brown ; neck in front darker, nearly blackish-brown, forming a 
sort of “bib” on the upper breast, the edges of the brown 
of the back of the neck margining the broad white demicollar of 
the same color ; upper back, scapulars, lesser, median, and greater- 
coverts, also the secondaries and tertials, deep chocolate-brown, all 
the secondaries broadly tipped with white ; primaries dark brown, 
nearly black, all, except the first three, tipped with white; edge 
of the wing white; breast and sides of the breast paler brown 
than the back ; abdomen, vent, under tail-coverts, flanks, upper 
tail and thigh-coverts, white. 
In winter the forehead and lores are a pale brown, also the crown 
of the head and cheeks, the feathers here and there margined 
with greyish-white ; breast pale brown, the feathers margined 
greyish-white ; chin and throat white, the feathers of the 
latter tipped with brown, otherwise as in the summer plumage, 
the color of the mantle and wings being paler. 
The Sooty Gull occurs in the Kurrachee Harbour and all along 
the Coast as far south at least as Bombay, where Mr. Hume 
observed a specimen. 
Larus gelastes, Licht. 
981quat.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 317. 
Length, 17 to 18°5; wing, 11°5 to 12 ; tarsus, 2 to 2:12; bill at 
front, 1°6 to 1°82, 
Bill red, occasionally with a blackish tinge ; irides pale yellow ; 
eyelids bright red ; legs and feet deep red. 
