320 DRUMMOND'S SNIPE. 



greater ones, and tertiaries, reflecting green and mottled, or barred 

 with yellowish-brown ; this colour also forming stripes from the fore- 

 head to the nape, over the eyes to the sides of the neck, and more 

 broadly on the exterior edges of the scapulars and interscapulars. 

 Middle dorsal plumage and first quill fringed with white, and most of 

 the wing-coverts and lesser quills tipped with the same. Shafts of the 

 primaries deep brown ; an inch of the first near its point whitish. 

 Rump and tail-coverts rich greenish-black, with reddish-orange or fer- 

 ruginous ends, crossed by a blackish subterminal line, and tipped with 

 white ; the three exterior pairs barred alternately with clove-brown 

 and brownish-white, the white tips broader ; the two intermediate pairs 

 coloured nearly like the middle ones, but partly barred and tipped with 

 white. Under plumage : A dark brown stripe on the lores, another 

 under the ear. Sides of the head, front of the neck and breast pale 

 wood-brown, with central spots of dark umber ; the flanks, insides of 

 the wings, and under tail-coverts, barred with black and white, which 

 on the latter is tinged with brown. Belly white. Bill blackish towards 

 its tip, dark wood-brown at the base. 



" Form typical ; one small fold of the epidermis at the upper base of 

 the bill ; tail rather long, graduated, the feathers decreasing a little in 

 breadth as they are more exterior. 



" Length to end of tail 11^ inches ; tail 2\% ; wing 5| ; bill above 

 2^-^, rictus 2|^ ; bare part of tibia 1^2 ; tarsus \^^ ; middle toe 1^, its 

 nail \^ ; inner toe \\ ; hind toe ^3, its nail t'j." 



WESTERN GULL. 



Larus occidentalis. 



Two specimens of this Gull have been sent to me by Dr Townsend. 

 One of them, an adult, is marked, " Male, Cape Disappointment, Oc- 

 tober 7th 1836 ;" the other, a young bird, " Young Male, Cape Disap- 

 pointment, October 6th 1836." The iris of both is stated to have been 

 light hazel. This species, which I presume to be undescribed, as I 



