1878.] MR. H. SAUNDERS ON THE LARIN.K. 193 



Larus lambruschini, Bp., Schl. M. P.-Bas, Lari, p. 28 (1863) ; 

 Hume, Stray Feath. i. p. 2/4 (1873). 



Chr otocephalus gelastes, Licht. Nomencl. Av. M. Berolst. p. 98. 



"Larus arabicus, Hemp. & Ehr.," Mus. Berolst. (fide H. S.). 



Hab. South coast of Spain, the Mediterranean and Black Sea 

 (breeding) ; the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and the coasts as far as 

 Kurrachi ; also West Africa to Senegal, whence there is a specimen 

 in the Paris Museum. 



This species seems to have no very near allies. It never has a hood ; 

 yet its structure and wing-pattern remind us of L. ridibundus. In 

 appearance it is like L. scopulinus ; but its wings are very long, its 

 bill is slender, its flight is Tern-like, and its eggs are singularly like 

 those of Sterna cantiaca and S. media. I locate it here because I 

 do not know of any better position for it. 



31. Larus leucophthalmus, Licht. 



Larus leucophthalmus, Licht. ; Temra. PI. Col. liv. 62, pi. 366 

 (1825); id. Man. d'Orn. 4 me pt. p. 486 (1840); Heugl. Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 349; Konig-Warth. Ibis, 1860, p. 129; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. 

 Ostafr. p. 821 ; Finsch, Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. pt. vi. p. 302 ; Schl. 

 M. P.-Bas, Lari, p. 32. 



Iris (mispr.) leucophthalmus, Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. p. 618(1831). 



Xema lecophthalmum, Bp. Ucc. Eur. p. 78 (1842). 



Xema leucophthalma, Gray, Brit.-M. List, Anseres, p. 171 (1844). 



Adelarus leucophthalmus, Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1853, p. 106, et 1855, 

 p. 278; Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 771 (1856) ; Blasius, J. f. Orn. 

 1865, p. 378. 



Chroicocephalus leucophthalmus, Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 295. 



Larus masauanus, Heugl. Peterm. Geogr. Mittheil. 1861, p. 31. 



Hab. Temminck states that this species visits Greece and the 

 shores of the Bosphorus ; but no recent travellers in those parts 

 have ever met with it ; and although two energetic naturalists, Dr. 

 Kriiper and M. Alleon, have for years been resident in the neighbour- 

 hood and have thoroughly explored the Greek Archipelago and the 

 Bosphorus, they have never met with it, either there or in the Euboean 

 channel, which Lindermayer (Vog. Griech. p. 177) so particularly 

 indicates. Even in the Red Sea it is, according to Von Heuglin, 

 very scarce north of the tropic, though frequent more to the south ; 

 it does not, however, appear to go beyond the Gulf of Aden and the 

 Somali coast ; for neither Blanford nor Hume mention it as occurring 

 along the Mekran coast ; and its range is therefore much less exten- 

 sive than that of the allied species L. hemprichi. 



32. Larus hemprichi (Bp.). 



Xema crassirostris (Licht.), Boie, Isis. 1844, p. 192. 



Larus crassirostris, Licht. Nomencl. p. 99 (1854) (nee Vieill.), 

 Mus. Berolst. 



Adelarus hemprichii, Bp. ; Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1853, p. 106 (descr.), 

 et 1855, p. 278 ; Bonap. Naum. 1854, p. 212; Blasius, J. f. Orn. 

 1865, p. 378. 



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