424 LARIN.E. 



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. 



$. Length, 24*2 ; wing, 17'2 ; tarsus, 2 6 ; 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 ichthysetus, 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. 3 19. 



