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PALMirEDES. 



Family LARID^. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Larus. (Linnceus.) 



GEE AT BLACK-HEADED GULL. 



Larus ichthyaetos. 



Larus ichthyaetos, . Pallas. 



Xema ichthyoetum, Bonaparte. 



Mouette ichthyaete, Of the Feench. 



Fischmove, Of the Geemans. 



jRyhalc, Of the Eussians. 



Charahalta, Of the Taetaes. 



Great Gull, Latham. 



Specific Characters. — Spring plumage. Beak large and thick; 

 tarsi long; head and neck velvety black, with a white spot over 

 each eye ; mantle greyish blue. Length twenty-five inches ; wing, 

 from carpus to tip, eighteen inches and a half; tarsus three 

 inches; bare part above knee one inch and three quarters; bill, 

 from gape, three inches and five eighths ; bill, from forehead, 

 two inches and a half. 



This interesting bird was sliot the end of May or 

 beginning of June, 1859, in the River Exmouth, by 

 William Pine, the boatman of W. Taylor, Esq., of 

 Bridgewater, whence the specimen passed to the late 

 r. "W. L. Eoss, Esq., by whom a description will be 

 found in the "Zoologist" for 1860, p. 6860, as well as 



