192 RED LEGGED GULL. Class IL 



9. Red Larus ridibundus. y. L. albi- Larus crythropus. Gm. Lin. 

 LEGGED. dus capite fusco maculis al- 597-? 



bis, dorso cano, rectricibtis Brown headed Gull. Lath. 



decern intermediis fascia ni- Syn. vi. 383. ? 



gra. Lath. Ind.orn. 812.} Red legged Gull. Arct. Zool, 



ii. 249. 



TION. 



Descrip- r" BILL and legs of a blood-red color; the 

 head and neck white, mottled about the former; 

 the back and coverts of the wings of a fine 

 grey; the lesser coverts mottled; the under 

 side of the body, and the tail, white, the last 

 tipt with black ; size of the Black-cap Gull." 



Such is the description of the Red legged 

 Gull in the Arctic Zoology ; the specimen shot 

 in Anglesey, has been thus described by Mr. 

 Pennant in a manuscript note. 



" Legs long and slender, bright red ; pri- 

 maries black tipt with white, external edges 

 white; back elegant light grey; rest of the 

 plumage white." 



Mr. Montagu considers this as the young of 

 the Black-headed Gull, but Dr. Latham^, in 

 some observations with which he has recently 

 favored the editor, supposes that it certainly is 

 a distinct species, as no Gull in the immature 

 state of its plumage has a back of an " elegant 

 light grey color." Ed. 



* In the Index ornithologicus that eminent naturalist refers 

 to the Red legged Gull of the Arctic Zoology, as a variety of the 

 Black Headed Gull. Ed. 



