1878.] 



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land Cassin states that Perry's expedition obtained two specimens 

 in Yedo Bay, Japan, where it is described as abundant ; but both the 

 supposed examples were young birds without a trace of a hood, only 

 striated on the head ; and the other points of the description would 

 equally apply to young Herring-Gulls, which I am inclined to think 

 they were. At all events the reported occurrence of this Gull in 

 Japanese waters remains unconfirmed ; Capt. Blakiston has never 

 met with it; and Capt. St. John, H.M.S. ' Sylvia/ during the years 

 he was surveying those coasts, never saw it. 



38. Lartjs melanocephalus, Natt. (Fig. 11.) 

 Larus melanocephalus, Natt. Isis, 1818, p. 816; id. in Temm. 

 Man. d'Orn. 2nd ed. ii. p. 777 (1820); Schl. M. P.-Bas, Lari, 



Fig. 11. 



1. 2. 3. 



Three outer primaries of L, melanocephalus, jr. 



p. 43 (1863); Degl. & Gerbe, Orn. Europ. ii. p. 437 (1867); 

 Bree, B. of E. 2nd ed. v. p. 81 (breeding in Black Sea) ; Saund. Ibis, 

 1872, p. 79 (Thames). 



Xema melanocephalus, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 365. 



Xema melanocephalon, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 757 (1831). 



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