WHITE-EYED GULL. 67 



PALMIPEDES. 



Family LARID^. {Bonaparte.) 



Genus Larus. {Linnceus.) 



WHITE-EYED GULL. 



Larus leucophtJialmus. 



Larus leucophthalmus, Lichtenstein. Temminck. 



Xe??ia leucoplithalmum, Bonaparte. 



Goeland a iris blanc, Of the French. 



Weissdugige Move, Of the Germans. 



Adjameh, Of the Arabs. 



Specific Characters. — Tarsus two inches long; beak from the eyes to tip, 

 two inches and four fifths; a black hood, lightly tinged with grey in the 

 adult, and with ash brown, the feathers being bordered with white, in the 

 young. Length sixteen inches and four fifths. — Degland. 



This species is found on the coasts of Greece, on the border of 

 the E.ed Sea, and the shores of the Bosphorus. Count Miihle says 

 it visits Greece in spring in flocks, but that it is local, being found 

 especially in the lower end of the narrow channel which separates 

 the Island of Euboa or Negropont from Boeotia and Attica, near the 

 town of Egripos, where, in the clear shallow salt water it may be 

 seen fishing constantly, and not by any means shy, like the Black- 

 headed Gull. After remaining from eight to fourteen days. it disappears. 

 Heuglin gives its localities as follows, — Greece, Sicily (?), Genoa (rare), 

 Bosphorus, Yemen, Toucan Island (?) Probably in the Persian Gulf. 



Temminck says that they live in great numbers among the Grecian 

 Islands; but Lindermayer merely copies what Count Miihle has 

 written, with the addition that he shot one in the locality mentioned 



