{From the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London, February 5, 18/8.] 



ON THE 



LARINM OR GULLS. 



BY 



HOWARD SAUNDERS, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



A revision of the Larincd is a more difficult task than that of the 

 Sternince, the members of the present subfamily being subject to far 

 greater variations in plumage on their passage from youth to age 

 than is customary with the Terns. The latter, although offering 

 differences in individual size and graduation of tint which are often 

 extremely puzzling, may be said to have only two, or at most three, 

 stages of plumage, viz. the immature, the winter-, and the adult 



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