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Count E. Arrio-oiii Deoli Oddi on 
any author with whose work I am acquainted. For com- 
parison I give the description of the Yellow-legged Herring- 
Gull in a similar state of plumage. 
Fig. 12. 
Head of Larus cachinnans. 
Yellow-legged Herring-Gvll (Larus cachinnans), young male 
in first dress, but able to fly. — Island of Capiaja 
(Tuscany), June 14, 1901. Prof. Damiani [C.]. 
Bill blackish, horn-coloured at the end, paler at the base 
of the lower mandible ; iris dark hazel ; head and neck 
whitish buif, with a broad, elongated, blackish-brown central 
stripe, which here and there is so expanded that no light pattern 
is visible ; darker beneath the eyes and on the auricular 
region; a blackish spot in front of the eye; the back, 
mantle, innermost secondaries, and wing-coverts almost 
blackish, with a broad huffish marginal edge, which is 
more or less suffused with grey ; this is still broader and 
more whitish on the rump, with the two colours in great 
contrast ; upper tail-coverts whitish buff, with blackish spots 
and bands ; chin and throat white, a little huffish and uni- 
ibrm ; under-parts uniform huffish grey, with large, dark, 
blackish centres or irregular blotches, very distinct on the 
sides of the neck and flanks and quite obsolete elsew here, 
so that these parts appear to be uniform in ground-colour ; 
