258 Mr. D. A. Baunermau on a Cullection of 



[This Little Tern was quite common in Walfisl: Bay; it 

 ■was also found on the lagoon a little Avay inland, which is 

 joined to the sea by a river. — W. P, L.] 



Sterna maxima Bodd. 



Sterna maxima Reich, i. p. 59. 



a. S • St. Paul de Loanda. Mtli Dec, 1910. (No. 88.) 



^», c. ?. Man-of-War Bay. 2nd Feb., 1911. (Nos. 421 

 & 423.) 



cl.S- Subono. lOth Pel)., 1911. (No. 463.) 



Iris brown ; bill yellow; feet black, soles of feet yellow. 



Total length in the flesh 19 inches ; expanse of wings 

 42 inches. 



Sterna maxima is not recorded from Liberia in ]\Ir. Chubb's 

 List. 



LaRUS DOMINIC.ANUS Licllt. 



Larus dominicanus Reich, i. p. 41. 



a-l. c? ? ad. et imm. Table Bay. 23rd & 24th Nov., 

 1910. (Nos. 1, .2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.) 



m, n. (^ ad. et imm. Walfish Bay. 8th Dec, 1910. 

 (Nos. 76, 77.) 



Iris greyish brown ; eyelids orange-red; bill yellow with 

 red patch on lower mandible; legs and feet bluish yellow. 

 In immature birds the bill is black and the feet dirty 

 whitish. 



[These Gulls were never seen in open water, but they are 

 plentiful enough at the guano islands and along the main- 

 land ; they do not, however, follow ships out to sea, as is the 

 habit of our European species. This remark also applies to 

 the following species, L. hartlauli. — W. P. L.] 



Larus hartlaubi (Bruch). 



Larus hartlaubi Reich, i. p. 45. 



aj>. (^ ? . Off Hogie Point (? Houtjes Pt.), S. Africa. 

 25th Nov., 1910. (Nos. 15, 16.) 



c-k. S ? . Table Bay. 23rd-29th Nov., 1910. (Nos. 

 5, 20, 23, 27, 28, 35, 36, 37.) 



Iris brown , eyelids reddish ; bill reddish black ; feet 

 brownish. 



