716 LARID^E. 



Blanf., East. Pers. ii. p. 291. Larus lambruschini, Bp., Schl. Mus. P. Bas. 

 p. 28 ; Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 274. The ROSY SEA GULL. 



Slimmer Plumage. Entire head, neck, upper back, rump, upper tail 

 coverts, entire lower parts and tail white, tinged with rosy, except on the head, 

 where the rosy tinge is scarcely perceptible ; mantle, secondaries, tertiaries, 

 lesser and median wing coverts, and the upper greater coverts, also the wing 

 lining pale bluish french grey, rather pearly grey on the back and tertiaries ; 

 four or five of the primary coverts and edge of the wing white ; primaries, 

 the first white, except the outer web, tip and margin of the inner web; 

 second to fourth primaries white, the margin of their outer webs narrower 

 and decreasing in extent terminally, and broadening and running up basally 

 on their inner webs, with the black tips broader successively ; fifth and sixth 

 primaries tipped white ; the outer web of the fifth greyish, and that of the 

 sixth slightly darker, with a subterminal dark band ; bill, legs and feet deep 

 red ; the bill in some with a blackish tinge ; eyelids bright red ; irides pale 

 yellow. 



Length. 17 to 18*5 inches; wing 11-5 to I2'O; bill at front r6 to 1-82; 

 tarsus 2 to 2-12. 



Hal. Sind (Kurrachee harbour), Gulf of Oman, Persian Gulf, the 

 Mediterranean and Black Sea, also the Red Sea. 



Numerous everywhere in the Kurrachee harbour during winter. Distin- 

 guished from all other species by its never having a hood and the dark 

 spot in front and behind the eye, characteristic of the winter plumage of 

 ridibundus. 



1420. Larus hemprichi, Bp., Heugi.lbis, 1859, p. 350; Elan- 

 ford, Abyssinia, p. 441; id., East. Pers. ii. p. 292; Hume, Str. F.\. 

 p. 279; iv. p. 444; v. p. 296 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., fyc., Sind, p. 248 ; id., 

 Vert. Zool., Sind, p. 318. HEMPRICH'S SEA GULL. 



Summer. Forehead, crown, nape, chin and throat chocolate brown ; neck 

 in front darker, nearly blackish brown, forming a sort of a "bib"; on the 

 upper breast, the edges of the brown of the back of the neck margining the 

 broad white demicollar of the same colour ; 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 ; legs and 

 feet yellowish, or greyish yellow ; bill greenish drab, tipped red, with a subter- 

 minal black bar ; irides dark brown. 



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 ; 



