LARUS. 717 



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 

 >lumage, the colour of the mantle and wings being slightly paler. 



Length. 17-5 to iS'S inches; wing 13-25 to 137; tarsus 2 to 2-1 ; bill at 

 front r8 to 2-0. 



Hab. Sind, Mekran Coast, Persian Gulf, from the Red Sea to Aden, 

 Kutch, Guzerat, Concan (at Bombay). 



1421. Larus brunneicephalus, Jerdm, Madras Joum. xii. 



p. 225 ; id., Birds Ind. iii. p. 832 ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 480; Str. 

 F. i. p. 278 j iv. p. 203 ; vi. p. 291 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., fyc., Sind, p. 247 ; 

 id., Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 318. The BROWN-HEADED GULL. 



Summer Plumage. Entire head and neck sooty brown, darker where it 

 terminates; orbital feathers white posteriorly; back and wings light grey; 

 nape, hind neck, upper tail coverts and tail, also the under parts white ; first 

 primary black ; inner web white at the base and with a white subterminal 

 band, the second has both webs white at the base and a smaller terminal spot, 

 the third is grey, with still less black and no white, and so on, lessening to the 

 seventh ; the other quills are grey ; bill and feet red, the bill darkish at the 

 tip ; irides white, (Jerd.) 



Length. 15'8 to 16-5 inches; wing 11-5 to 13*0; tail 4-5 to 5-5. 



In winter, the head, neck all round, entire lower parts and upper tail coverts, 

 also the edge of the wing, are white ; tail white with a black band, narrowly 

 edged with white terminally ; a dark spot before and behind the eye ; quills 

 black, white at their bases, and except the first two, all tipped with white ; 

 secondaries dark brown, tipped with white ; tertials and upper plumage as in 

 summer. 



Hal. Sind, along the coast and inland, Mekran Coast, Persian Gulf, 

 Bengal, Kutch, Guzerat and the Deccan. Occurs also in Burma and Ceylon. 



1422. LarUS ichthysetUS, Pall., It. \\. App. No. 27; (Caspian) id., 

 Zoogr. Rosso. As. ii. p. 322; Tristram, Ibis, 1868, p. 30; (Palestine) Shelley, 

 B. of Egypt, p. 307; Dresser, B. JEur.pt. xviii. ; Str.F. i. p. 276. Murray, 

 Hdbk., Zool., &c., Sind, p. 247 ; id., Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 319. Kroikoce- 

 phalus ichthyaetus (Pall.'), Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 831. The GREAT BLACK- 

 HEADED GULL. 



Summer Plumage. Entire head and upper half of neck black; orbital fea- 

 thers white ; mantle, back, scapulars and wings bluish grey ; entire lower 

 parts, tail, and upper tail coverts white ; in immature plumage the tail has a 

 black band ; primaries with a black band, increasing in width to the outermost 

 one, which has the whole of the outer web and half of the inner web black ; 

 rest of the first primaries grey, tipped with white ; bill wax yellow, vermilion 



