192 
9. Rep 
LEGGED. 
DeEscrip- 
TION. 
RED LEGGED GULL. Crass IE 
Larus ridibundus. y. L. albi- Larus crythropus. Gm. Lin. 
dus capite fusco maculis al- 597-? 
bis, dorso cano, rectricibus Brown headed Gull. Lath. 
decem intermediis fascia ni- Syn. vi. 383.? 
era. Lath. Ind. orn. 812.? Red legged Gull. Arct. Zool. 
ll. 249. 
[‘“‘ BILL and legs of a blood-red color; the 
head and neck white, mottled about the former; 
the back and coverts of the wings of a fine 
grey; the lesser coverts mottled; the under 
side of the body, and the tail, white, the last 
tipt with black; size of the Black-cap Gull.” 
Such is the description of the Red legged 
Gull in the Arctic Zoology ; the specimen shot 
in Anglesey, has been thus described by Mr. 
Pennant in a manuscript note. 
“‘ Legs long and slender, bright red; _pri- 
maries black tipt with white, external edges 
white; back elegant light grey; rest of the 
plumage white.” 
Mr. Montagu considers this as the young of 
the Black-headed Gull, but Dr. Latham*, in 
some observations with which he has recently 
favored the editor, supposes that it certainly is 
a distinct species, as no Gull in the immature 
state of its plumage has a back of an “ elegant 
light grey color.” Ep. 
* In the Index ornithologicus that eminent naturalist refers 
to the Red legged Gull of the Arctic Zoology, as a variety of the 
Black Headed Gull. Ep. 
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