400 



Larus argentatoides, Richardson, Schinz, Europ. Fauna, i. p. 380, " North America" (1840), 



conf. Schlegel, Rev. Crit. p. 112. 

 Larus argentatus, Briinnich, Schlegel, partim, Rev. Crit. Ois. d'Europe, p. cxxiv. no. 133, 



" northern regions of the Old World " (1844). 

 Larus argentatus, Briinnich, Degland, Ornith. Europ. ii. p. 306. no. 298, " Northern and 



Eastern Europe "(1849). 

 ILarus affinis, J. Bernhardt, Vid. Medd. 1853, p. 78, "Greenland;" J. f. O. 1854, p. 433. 



no. 12; Ibis, 1861, p. 17. no. 110. 

 Glaucus argentatus (Briinnich), Bruch, J. f. O. 1853, p. 101. no. 15, "Northern Europe." 

 Glaucus argentatoid.es (Richardson), Bruch, loc. cit. no. 16, " North America" (1853). 

 Laroides argentatus (Briinnich), Bp. Naumannia, 1854, p. 212. no. 22, "Atlantic, Medi- 

 terranean, Black Sea." 

 Laroides argentatoides (Richardson), Bp. loc. cit. no. 23, "North America" (1854). 

 Laroides argentatus (Briinnich), Bruch, J. f. O. 1855, p. 282. no. 23, "Northern Europe." 

 Laroides argentatoides (Richardson), Bruch, loc. cit. no. 24, "North America" (1855). 

 Larus argentatoides, Richardson, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1855, p. 16, "North America." 

 Laroides argentatus (Briinnich), Bp. Consp. ii. p. 218. no. 1, " Northern and Western Europe, 



Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Black Sea" (1857). 

 Laroides argentaceus, C. L. Brehm, Bp. loc. cit. no. 2 (1857). 



Laroides argentatoides (Richardson), Bp. loc. cit. no. 3, "Florida, Texas, Canada" (1857). 

 Larus argentatus, Briinnich, Hartl. Syst. Ornith. W. Afrik. p. 251. no. 709, " Senegal " (1857). 

 Larus argentatus, Briinnich, Lawrence, Birds N. America, p. 844, " Atlantic coasts, Texas to 



Newfoundland, Western States, Ohio and Mississippi rivers " (1860). 

 Larus smithsonianus, Coues, P. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 296. no. 8, "America." 

 Larus argentatus, Briinnich, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Lari, p. 16, partim (1863). 

 Larus argentatus, Briinnich, Blasius, J. f. O. 1865, p. 380. no. 25, partim. 

 Larus argentatus, Briinnich, Barboza du Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. 1868, pp. 149, 330, "Angola, 



Porto Alexandre." 

 Larus argentatus, Briinnich, Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, p. 312, "N. America" (1872). 



(The above by Lord Walden.) 



Herring-Gull, Silvery Gull, English; Goeland argente, French; Silbermotve, German; 

 Alcatraz, Gaivota, Portuguese ; Garga branca, Azorean ; Kobber, Zilvermeeuiv, Dutch ;' 

 Havmaage, Danish; Fiskji maasi (ad.), Skuri (juv.), Fseroese; Stor Graamaage, Nor- 

 wegian ; Grdtrut, Swedish ; TschaiJca serebristarga, Russian (Kessler) ; Mewa srebrzysta, 



Polish (TaczanowsJcy). 



Figure notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, loc. cit. ; Audubon, Birds Amer. pi. 448 ; Gould, Birds Eur. pi. 434 ; Naum. 

 Vog. Deutsch. taf. 266 ; Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 14 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. xlii. ; 

 Fritsch, Vog. Eur. pi. liv. fig. 12 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 1. figs. 1, 2 ; Schlegel, Vog. 

 Nederl. pis. 347, 348; Gray, Gen. of Birds, ii. p. 180, fig. 5. 



3 ad. (Est. albus : dorso, scapularibus tectricibusque alarum pulchre et pallide canis : tectricibus majoribus et 



