62 AUDOUIN'S GULL. 



PALMIPEDES. 



Family LARIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Larus. {Linnoe.u& .~) 



AUDOUIN'S GULL. 



Larus audouinii. 



Larus atidoiiinii, Payraudeau ; Ann. des Societ. Nat., 1826. 



Gotland Audouin, Of the French. 



Buntschndhlidge Move, Of the Germans. 



Gahhiano Corso, Of Savi. 



Specific Characters. — Wings very long, passing a considerable distance 

 beyond the end of the tail; beak strong; feet black; middle toe much 

 shorter than the tarsus; most frequently two transverse bands on the beak. 

 Length eighteen to twenty inches; tarsus two inches. 



This Gull inhabits tlie Mediterranean Sea, where it may generally 

 be found in Corsica, Sardinia, and more rarely in Sicily. M. 

 Temminck, who is my authority for these localities, further adds that 

 it is common in the Gulfs of Valinco and Figari, at Porto Vecchio, 

 and the mouths of the Bonifacio. Dr. Lindermayer includes it 

 among the Grecian birds, on the authority of Erhardtj and Lord 

 Lilford says a fine specimen was killed near Corfu, in May, 1857, 

 and, though he saw no other specimens, he believes it to be not 

 uncommon there, ("Ibis," vol. ii, p. 253.) Savi introduces it into 

 the '* Ornitologia Poscano." On the African coast we find it mentioned 

 by Mr. P'aylor, ("Ibis," vol. ii, p. 54,) as occurring near Cairo; 

 and it is included in Captain Loche's Algerian catalogue. Mr. 

 Tristram saw it about Coiffa Bay, on the Syrian coast. 



The following is Lord Lilford's account of the capture of this 

 Gull, taken from the Ibis for January, 1875: — "As we lay close off 



