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PALMIPEDES. 



Family LARID^. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Larus. ( Linnceus.) 



GREAT BLACK-HEADED GULL. 



Lams ichthyartos. 



Larus icJitliyaetos, 

 Xema icldhyoetum, 

 Mouette ichthyaete, 

 Fischrnove, 

 Ryhak, 

 Charahalta, 

 Great Gull, 



Pallas. 



Bonaparte. 



Of the Feench. 



Or THE Germans. 



Of the Eussians. 



Of the Tartars, 



Latham. 



Specific Character.'^. — Spring jJumage. Beak large and thick; 

 tarsi long; head and neck velvety black, with a white spot over 

 each eye; mantle greyish blue. Length twenty-five inches; wing, 

 from carpus to tip, eigliteen inches and a half; tarsus three 

 inches; bare part above knee one inch and three quai'ters; bill, 

 from gape, three inches and five eighths ; bill, from forehead, 

 two inches and a half. 



This interesting bird was shot the end of May or 

 beginning of June, 1859, in the River Exniouth, by 

 William Pine, the boatman of W. Taylor, Esq., of 

 Bridgewater, whence the specimen passed to the late 

 F. W. L. Ross, Esq., by Avhom a description will be 

 found in the "Zoologist" for 1860, p. 6860, as well as 



