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MR. H. SAUNDERS ON THE LARINJE. 



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Bay, Damaraland, and at Lake Ngami {Chapman). I possess or 

 have examined specimens from the above localities. The species mav 

 extend as far as the Cape of Good Hope and to the south-east coast ; 

 but of this I have no positive information. 



This species is very closely allied to L. cirrhocepkalus ; but it is 

 smaller, and the bill and feet are orange-red, whilst in the larger 

 American species those soft parts are of a deep lake-colour ; and the 

 feathers in this species do not come down so close to the base of the 

 nostrils — differences which are quite sufficient to separate the two 

 forms. The African species was long confounded with L. hartlaubi 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, a bird belonging to a totally distinct 

 group, and which never has a hood at all. 



44. Larus saundersi (Swinhoe). (Fig. 15.) 



"Gavia Tcittlitzii, Bruch," Swinhoe, Ibis, I860, p. 68 (not of 

 Bruch, which is described from a drawing and is L. franklini) . 



Larus schimperi, Schlegel, M. P.-Bas, Lari, p. 40, 1863 (not of 

 Bruch, 1853, nor of Bp., which =L. franklini). 



Fig. 15. 



1. 2. 3. 



Three outer primaries of L. saundersi, ad. 



Chroicocephalus hittlitzii, Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 428, et P. Z. S. 

 p. 328. 



Xema kittlitzii, David, N. Arch. Mus. Bull. vii. 1871, no. 461. 



Chroicocephalus saundersi, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 273, 421, 

 pi. 22 ; David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 523 (1877). 



Hub. The coasts of China, especially about Amoy, in winter 



