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PACIFIC GULL. 



by Montagu, in the Appendix to his Ornithological 

 Dictionary : and another was killed near Brent, in 

 Devonshire, and presented to the British Museum 

 by C. Prideaux, Esq., an industrious and persevering 

 naturalist. 



PACIFIC GULL. 

 (Lams pacifica.) 



'La,Juscus pectore uropygioque albidis, rostro Jiilvo, prope apicem 

 nigro. 



Brown Gull with the breast and rump whitish, the beak fulvous, 



black near the tip. 

 Larus pacificus. Lath. Ind, Orn. Sup. Ixviii. 

 Pacific Gull. Lalh. Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 332. Lath. Gen. Hist. 



X. 169. 



^* The general colour of the plumage in this bird 

 is deep brown ; but the under parts, the rump, and 

 tips of the lesser wing-coverts are very pale brown, 

 approaching to white : tail rather short, rounded at 

 the end : beak dirty orange, swelling near the point, 

 where it is crossed with dusky or black : legs dusky. 

 Inhabits New South Wales." — Latham, 



