426 LARIN-ffi. 



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. 



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. 318. 



THE SOOTY GULL. 



Length, 17'5 to 18'5 ; wing, 13'25 to 137 ; 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. 



QSIquat Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 317. 



Length, 17 to 18'5 ; wing, ll'o 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. 



