Ciassil. ‘BLACK HEADED GULL. 
Larus ridibundus. 6. L. albus 
dorso cano, macula pone 
. aures fusca. Lath. Ind. orn. 
- 812. 
Red legged Gull. id. Syn. vi. 
381. 
Larus albus major. Raii Syn. 
av. 129. 
Wil. orn. 348. 
La petite Mouette cendrée. 
Brisson av. vi. 178 ¢. 17. 
JF.1. Hist. Goris. viii.430. 
La Grande Mouette blanche. Le petit Goiland. Pl. Eni. 
Belon. 170. ‘969. | 
J... cinerarius. Gm. Lin.597. ‘Larus eanus.'Scopoli, No. 104. 
HIS was takenina trap near my ‘house, Ja- 
nuary 25th, 17:72, and seemed only’a variety:of 
the former. It differed in having'the edges of 
‘the eye-lids covered with white. ‘soft ‘feathers; 
the forepart of the head white ; the space round 
the eyes dusky; from the corner of each eye €x- 
tended a broad dusky bar, surrounding the hind 
part of the head ;-behind that was another-reach- 
ing from ear toear; the ends, interior, and exterior 
edges of the three first quil feathers were black; 
“the ends and interior:sides only of the two next 
black, but the shafts and middle part white ; the 
tips of the two next white, beneath:a black:bar : 
the rest, as well ‘as the secondaries, ‘ash color. 
TIn‘all other ‘respects it:resembled the common 
jpewiteeull. ‘The fat was-of a deep orange color. 
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