Class II. BLACK HEADED GULL. igf 



Larus rldibundus. ^. L. albus Larus albus major. Rail Syn. (A.) Va- 



dorso canOj macula pone av. ISQ. riety. 



aures fusca. Lath. Ind. orn. Wil. orn. 348. 



812. La petite Mouette cendree. 



Red legged Gull. id. Syn. vi. Brisson av. vi. I78 t. 17. 



381. /. 1. Hisi. d^ois. viii. 430. 



La Grande Mouette blanche. Le petit Goiland. PI. EnL 



Belon. 170. 969. 



L. cinerarius. Gm. Lin. 597- Larus canus. Scopoli, No. 104. 



J- HIS was taken in a trap near my house, Ja- 

 nuary 9^5ih, 1772, and seemed only a variety of 

 the former. It differed in having the edges of 

 the eye-lids covered with white soft feathers ; 

 the forepart of the head white ; the space round Descrip- 

 the eyes dusky; from the corner of each eye ex- 

 tended a broad dusky bar, surrounding the hind 

 part of the head; behind that was another reach- 

 ing fromeartoear; the ends, interior, and exterior 

 edges of the three first quil feathers were black ; 

 the ends and interior sides only of the two next 

 black, but the shafts and middle part white ; the 

 tips of the two next white, beneath a black bar : 

 the rest, as w^ell as the secondaries, ash color. 

 In all other respects it resembled the common 

 pewit gull. The fat was of a deep orange color. 



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