PLATE CLXXVI. 



LARUS RIDIBUNDUS y. 

 BROWN-HEADED GULL. 

 Ansekes. 



GENEBIC CHARACTER. 



Bill ftraight, fliarp-edged_, a little falcated at the tip and tootlilefs^ 

 lower mandible gibbous below the point : noftrils linear^ broader on 

 the fore part, and placed in the middle of the bill. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 White, head blackifli : bill and legs red. 



Larus Ridibundus. Linn. Sijji. I. p. 225. 9- 



Larus RiDiBUNDus : albidus^ capite nigricante, roftro pedibufque 



rubris. Oedm, Nov. Act. Stockh. 1783. 2. w. /. 



p. 119. n.g. 



Larus Ridibundus 7 : albidus^ capite fufco maculis albis, 601(0 

 cano^ rectricibiis decern intermediis fafcia nigra. 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. 812. 



Brown-headed Gull. Lath. Syn. 6. p. 383. U.--Alhiri. ^. 

 pi. 86. 



Brown-headed Gull. Lev. Mvj. 



The 



