LARUS H^MATORHYNCHUS, Vigors. 

 Red-billed Gull. 



PLATE CVI. 



L. rostro pedibusque rubris ; capite, collo, corpore totoque supra pallide griseis ; dorso, 

 tectricibus alarum scapularibusque ardesiacis, his apicibus albis ; remigibus griseo- 

 nigris apicibus albis, cauda alba. 



Lams haematorhynchus, Fig. Zool. Journ. vol. iv. p. 103. 



A he bill and legs of this species are a bright red, beautifully contrasting 

 with the pale colours of the plumage. The head, neck, and under parts 

 of the body are pale smoke-grey ; the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, 

 deep grey, similar to that of the lesser Black-backed Gull ; the scapulars 

 and secondaries deeply margined and tipped with white ; the quills are 

 black, with white tips ; the tail pure white. The length of the specimen 

 was about eighteen inches. 



This curious species is now in the museum of the London Zoological 

 Society, being part of the last valuable collection remitted by Captain King 

 from the Straits of Magellan. In shape, it is strong, and more like that 

 of some Petrels. The bill is also stronger, being more dilated at the 

 base, and the connection is still farther developed by the form of the feet 

 and legs, and by the hind toe, which is short, with a blunt nail, as in the 

 above-mentioned genus. 



