Oedeb GAVI^.] 
[Fam. LAEID^. 
LAEUS NOViE HOLLANDIJ:. 
(BKOWN-BILLED GULL.) 
Larus novae hollandice, Stephens, Shaw’s Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. p. 196 (1826), ex Latham. 
Larus jamesonii, Wilson, 111. Zool. pi. xxiii. (1831). 
Larus scopulinus, var. major, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 106 (1844). 
Xema jamesonii, Goidd, Birds of Australia, vol. vii. pi. xx. (1848, nec Wils.). 
Gavia jamesonii, Wils. Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1853, p. 102, et 1855, p. 285. 
Gavia andersonii, Bruch, J. £. Orn. 1853, p. 102, et 1855, p. 285. 
Gavia pomarre, Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1853, p. 103 (not Gavia pomare of 1855, p. 285). 
Gelastes gouldi. Bp. Naumann. 1854, p. 216. 
Gelastes corallinus. Bp. tom. cit. pp. 212, 216. 
Gelastes andersonii. Bp. tom. cit. p. 212. 
Gavia gouldii. Bp. Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1855, p. 285. 
Bruchigavia gouldi. Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 228 (1857). 
Bruclngavia pomare. Bp. tom. cit. p. 228 (1857). 
Bruchigavia jamesonii. Bp. tom. cit. p. 228 (1857). 
Bruchigavia corallinus. Bp. tom. cit. p. 228 (1857). 
Larus scopulinus major, Schlegel, M. P.-Bas, Larinm, p. 29 (1863). 
Bruchigavia jameson ii, Gould, Handb. B. of Austral, ii. p. 387 (1865). 
Larus scopulinus, Huttou, Cat. Birds of N. Z. pp. 40, 78 (1871). 
Native name. — Tarapunga. 
Ad. similis L. scopidino, sed primariis alitcr notatis distinguendus. 
Adult. This form differs from Larus scopulinus only in having the bill, which is somewhat narrower, together 
with the legs and feet pale brown instead of being arterial red, and in the different markings of the primaries, 
which are as follows : the first primary is black, with a subapical hatchet-shaped mark of white, and a white 
tip ; the second and third have a narrow, somewhat irregular, elliptical mark of white, and a conspicuous 
white tip ; on the succeeding primaries the black progressively diminishes, but on the sixth it is reduced to 
two approximating spots on the opposite webs, divided by a white shaft-line. 
Variety. The Otago Museum contains a very perfect albino, obtained near Dunedin, and presented by- 
Mr. J. C. Fulton : bill and feet pale yellowish brown. 
Obs. It ought to be noted that the white markings on the primaries are somewhat inconstant, and taken alone 
would be an insufficient criterion for distinguishing the species. In an apparently fully adult specimen 
which I examined at Dunedin there was an insignificant white mark on the first and second primaries, and 
all the rest were black, answering pretty nearly to Mr. Saunders’s figure of the first three quills in the young 
of Larus novae hollandice. 
Me. Howaed Saundees, in his revision of the Larince (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 187), says. 
“ Although very close to L. scopulinus of New Zealand, I think this species may fairly be distin- 
