1878.] 



MR. H. SAUNDERS ON THE LARINjE. 



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In spite of the somewhat peculiar shape of the bill in this species 

 I hardly think it desirable to place it on that account in a distinct 

 genus, especially as Bonaparte's genus Leucophceus also includes 

 such dissimilar species as the present and L. heermanni of North 

 America. His Procellarus is founded on a young bird of the same 

 species ! Larus seoresbii, however, is a very well-marked species, 

 frorn its short, stout, crimson bill, and coarse legs and feet, the webs 

 of the latter being a good deal incised. In the immature stage this 

 bird has a sooty hood ; but in the adult the upper parts are grey. 



26. Larus nov.e-hollandije, Steph. (Fig. 1.) 



Larus nova>-hollandia>, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii pt i 

 p. 196 (1826), ex Latham. r 



Lams scopulinus, var. major, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 106 (1844). 



Fig. 1. 



1- 2. 3. 



Three outer primaries of L. novwhollandim, jr. (from the type of Gavw 

 pomarre, Bruch, of 1853, not of 1855). 



Larus jamesonii, Wilson, 111. Zool. pi. xxiii. (1831) 

 Xema jamesonii, Gould, Birds of Australia, vol. vn.pl. xx (1848) 

 via jamesonii, W,h. Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1853, p! 102- 1855 



p. 285 



