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FRAHKLIN'B S08T OULL. 



Liirn/i alrkillu, Saiiink, App. Fiiiiiklin'.s Polar Sea, 1823, CU5 (not of Linn. 1758). 



Iaiius Fi-aiiklinii, Sw. & Hull. F. H. A. II. 18;!!, 424, pi. 71. — Ari>. Oin. Ilioj;. V. 1839, 3'.>4 ; 



Syiioj.. 18311, 325 ; H. Am. VII. 1844, 14.5. — C'orr.H. Key, 1872, 31t! ; (.'li.ck List, 1873, no. 



655. — S.\rsi>KUs, r. Z. S. 1878, 11*5. — Hiimw. Noiii. X. Am. 15. 1881, no. «74. 

 Liru.1 (ChroiiiHrjilidlus) Frankliitii, IJlU'cll, .1. f. O. 1855,^289. — ('..n:s, IJ. N. W. ]s74, 053. 

 Chruifinrphulits Fntiiklinii, Lawii. in Hainl's H. N. Am. 1858, 851. — Baiud, Cat. N. Am. U. ISi'il', 



no. 008. — CouEs, 2il Chfik List, 1882, no. 787. 

 Liirus pijiixain, Wagl. Isis, 1831, 515. 



Lani.i encultdlHs, LifiiT. Noiiu'iicl. 1854, 98 (no ilosoriptioii). (Mi'xico. ) 

 L(in(s (VhroicMiphitlus) cucidliiliis, liiiidi, .1. f. O. 1855, 290. — Lawk, in Huinl's B, N. Am. 1858, 



851. — lUiitK, U. N. Am. 1859, no. t)ti9. 

 Larus ciiirrco-candaliis, rim,. & Lamhi. Wiegm. Aivhiv, 1801, 293 (t'liili). 

 t Lnnis (Chroicuciphalun) Kittliliii, IJurrii, .L f. t>. 1853, 104. 

 Chrincoapluihis Hchimpcri, Buvjii, 1. i: (not of Sciilku. 1803, wh'uh = L. Saiindcrsi, Swiniioe). 



Hab. The interior of North Aiiicrica, chit'lly tlie Missi.^^sippi Valley and northwuiil, Init h\vn\- 

 iiig mostly north of the United States ; C'eiitrul iiud South Anieriou, during migrations, a.s far as 

 Chili ; part of thu West Indies. 



Adult, Slimmer plnmntje. 



Sp. Char. Adult, in numrnir: Heiul and upper part of the neck plumbeous-black (more pliiia- 

 beous anteriorly) ; an elongated white spot on each eyelid; lower \y,\rt of the neck (all rouii 1), 



entire lower parts, lower part of the rump, and upi"!' 

 tail-covert.s snow-white, the neck and lower jliiIs 

 with a deep tinge of delicate rose-pink in fresli s|u'- 

 cinu'iis. Mantle deep bluish plumbeous, a liitli- 

 ^^^^^ lighter than in //. alrii-illn, the secondaries and terli.ils 



'..^S^^. ^mi^l^^^^mi broadly tip])e4l with white. Tail white, the four U> 



si.K central feathers tinge<l with pale grayish Miic, 

 deepest on tlie interniefliiu. Primaries bluish gniy, 

 the shafts white, the five <niter nuills marked willi a 

 " L. ciicuUalm." subterminal s|)ace of black, varyiiig in e.\tent finin 



nearly 2.0<) inches long on the second ipiill to abmit 

 .60 on the liftli, each quill broadly tipped with white, this occupying on the outer about \JtO indu"* 

 of the terminal portion, on the i-est less than .SO of an inch ; the bluish gray of the basal i>ortioii 



