1878.] 



MR. H. SAUNDERS ON THE LARINyE. 



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In spite of the somewhat peculiar shape of the bill in this species 

 I hardly think it desirable to place it on that account in a distinct 

 genus, especially as Bonaparte's genus Leucophaeus also includes 

 such dissimilar species as the present and L. heermanni of North 

 America. His Procellarus is founded on a young bird of the same 

 species ! Larus scoresbii, however, is a very well-marked species, 

 from its short, stout, crimson bill, and coarse legs and feet, the webs 

 of the latter being a good deal incised. In the immature stage this 

 bird has a sooty hood ; but in the adult the upper parts are grey. 



26. Larus nov^e-hollandi.e, Steph. (Fig. 1.) 



Larus novce-hollandicp, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. 

 p. 196 (1826), ex Latham. 



Larus scopulinus, var. major, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 106 (1844). 



Fi 2 . 1. 



1. 2. 3. 



Three outer primaries of L. novas-hollandim, jr. (from the type of Gavia 

 pomarre, Bruch, of 1853, not of 1855). 



Larus jamesonii, Wilson, 111. Zool. pi. xxiii. (1831). 



Xema jamesonii, Gould, Birds of Australia, vol. vii. pi. xx (1848). 



Gavia jamesonii, Wils. Bruch, J. f. Orn. 18.53, p. 102; 1855, 



285. 



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