﻿BuLLER, 
  — 
  Note 
  On 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  Saunders'' 
  Revieiu 
  of 
  the 
  Larin^. 
  359 
  

  

  some 
  ornithologist, 
  who 
  ■U'ill 
  devote 
  liis 
  attention 
  to 
  a 
  colony 
  during 
  the 
  

   breeding-season, 
  observing 
  the 
  produce 
  of 
  all 
  these 
  unions, 
  and, 
  if 
  possible, 
  

   marking 
  the 
  nestlings 
  before 
  they 
  take 
  wiag. 
  It 
  is 
  worthy 
  of 
  notice 
  that 
  in 
  

   Spitzbergen, 
  its 
  most 
  northern 
  breeding-ground, 
  neither 
  Dr. 
  Malmgren 
  nor 
  

   Professor 
  Newton 
  found 
  a 
  single 
  example 
  of 
  the 
  dark 
  whole-coloured 
  form 
  ; 
  

   all 
  those 
  which 
  Admiral 
  Collinson's 
  and 
  Dr. 
  Eae's 
  expeditions 
  brought 
  

   home 
  from 
  the 
  far 
  North 
  are 
  also 
  white-breasted 
  specimens, 
  which 
  looks 
  as 
  

   if 
  the 
  dark 
  form 
  was 
  a 
  more 
  exclusively 
  Southern 
  one." 
  

  

  Aet. 
  — 
  XLYI. 
  — 
  Xote 
  on 
  Mr. 
  Howard 
  Saunders' 
  Review 
  of 
  the 
  Lariuse, 
  or 
  

   GuJh. 
  By 
  De. 
  Duller, 
  C.M.G. 
  

   [Read 
  before 
  the 
  Wellington 
  riiilosoplncal 
  Society, 
  lltJi 
  January, 
  1879.] 
  

   Mr. 
  Howard 
  Saunders, 
  in 
  his 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  Larince, 
  in 
  the 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  

   Society, 
  Part 
  I., 
  1878, 
  steps 
  out 
  of 
  his 
  way 
  (at 
  page 
  161) 
  to 
  notice 
  my 
  

   having 
  adopted 
  Bonaparte's 
  Brucliiijavia, 
  " 
  a 
  genus 
  playfully 
  made," 
  for 
  a 
  

   New 
  Zealand 
  species, 
  this 
  being 
  as 
  he 
  states 
  "its 
  only 
  claim 
  to 
  remem- 
  

   brance." 
  Had 
  Mr. 
  Saunders 
  possessed 
  that 
  close 
  acquaintance 
  with 
  the 
  

   literature 
  of 
  his 
  subject 
  which 
  is 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  an 
  essential 
  qualificatiou 
  in 
  

   a 
  monographist, 
  he 
  would 
  of 
  course 
  have 
  been 
  aware 
  that 
  Mr. 
  Gould, 
  in 
  his 
  

   " 
  Handbook 
  to 
  the 
  Birds 
  of 
  Australia 
  " 
  (published 
  in 
  18G5), 
  adopted 
  Bona- 
  

   parte's 
  playful 
  name 
  for 
  " 
  a 
  genus 
  of 
  gulls 
  the 
  members 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  

   delicate 
  in 
  their 
  structure, 
  elegant 
  in 
  their 
  appearance, 
  and 
  graceful 
  in 
  all 
  

   their 
  actions" 
  — 
  deliberately 
  substituting 
  that 
  generic 
  title 
  for 
  Xema, 
  the 
  

   cue 
  previously 
  <:.sed 
  in 
  his 
  folio 
  edition. 
  

  

  In 
  1869, 
  in 
  a 
  communication 
  to 
  'The 
  Ibis,' 
  I 
  described 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  

   this 
  group 
  from 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  and 
  provisionally 
  referred 
  it 
  to 
  that 
  genus 
  

   under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Brucldijaria 
  vielanorhyncha. 
  To 
  this, 
  no 
  doubt, 
  Mr. 
  

   Saunders' 
  attempted 
  witticism 
  refers, 
  although 
  (at 
  page 
  190) 
  he 
  incorrectly 
  

   quotes 
  me 
  for 
  '' 
  Bruchii/avia 
  melanorhynchus." 
  But 
  when 
  I 
  treated 
  of 
  the 
  

   group 
  more 
  exhaustively 
  in 
  my 
  ' 
  Bu'ds 
  of 
  New 
  Zealand' 
  (1872), 
  as 
  Mr. 
  

   Saunders 
  is 
  or 
  surely 
  ought 
  to 
  be 
  aware, 
  I 
  adopted 
  the 
  generic 
  division 
  of 
  

   Larus 
  for 
  this 
  /= 
  L. 
  buUeriJ 
  and 
  the 
  allied 
  forms. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Saunders 
  is 
  entitled 
  to 
  our 
  thanks, 
  however, 
  for 
  having 
  apparently 
  

   cleared 
  up 
  the 
  confusion 
  in 
  the 
  nomenclature 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  with 
  Larus 
  

   pomarc. 
  He 
  states 
  that 
  during 
  a 
  recent 
  visit 
  to 
  Bremen 
  he 
  went 
  into 
  the 
  whole 
  

   question 
  with 
  Dr. 
  Finsch, 
  who 
  had 
  previously 
  studied 
  the 
  subject, 
  and 
  had 
  

   made 
  numerous 
  and 
  careful 
  drawings 
  of 
  the 
  primaries 
  of 
  Bruch's 
  types 
  of 
  

   L. 
  pomare 
  in 
  the 
  Mainz 
  Museum, 
  and 
  of 
  many 
  other 
  specimens. 
  He 
  gives 
  

   figures 
  of 
  the 
  three 
  outer 
  primaries 
  of 
  Larus 
  hullcri^ 
  and 
  says, 
  " 
  I 
  have 
  

   examined 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  Bruch's 
  L. 
  j'^omare 
  of 
  1855, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  undoubtedly 
  of 
  

   this 
  species; 
  but 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  his 
  L.pomarre 
  of 
  1853 
  is 
  as 
  certainly 
  L. 
  novcd' 
  

  

  