Order LARIF0RME8 
Family LARIDM. 
No 147. 
BRUCHIGAVIA NOV^-HOLLANDLE NOViE-HOLLANDLE. 
SILVER GULL. 
(Plate 120.)* 
Larus nov^-hollandi^ Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., pt. i., p, 196, 1826 ; 
New South Wales. 
Crimson-biUed Gull Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. X., p. 145, 1824. 
Larus nov(E-hollandi(B Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., pt. i., p. 196, 1826 ; 
Le Souef, Ibis 1895, p. 421 ; Saunders, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXV., p. 235, 
1896 (pars) ; North, Birds County Cumber., p. 113, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 90, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 860, 1901 (pars) ; 
id.. Emu, Vol. II., p. 209, 1903; Wilson, ih., Vol. V., p. 83, 1905; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 90, 1906 ; Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus., Birds, p. 151, 1906 ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 22, 1908 (pars) ; HuU, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 81, 
1908 ; id., ih., Vol. XI., p. 204, 1912. 
Larus jamesonii Wilson, lUustr. Zool., pi. xxin., 1831. 
Gavia andersonii Bruch, Journ. fiir Ornith., 1853, p. 102. 
Gavia pomarre id., ih., p. 103. 
Gelastes corallinus Bonaparte, Naumannia 1854, p. 216. 
Chroicocephalus jamesoni Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. Mus. Zool. Berol., p. 98, 1854. 
Bruchigavia corallinus Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 228, 1857. 
Gelastes novoe-hollandice Heine und Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein., Ornith., p. 359, 
1890. 
Zerm Keartland, Birds Melb. Distr., p. 119, 1900. 
Larus novae-hollandice novm-hollandice Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 211, 1912 ; 
id.. Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 55, 1912. 
Distribution. New South Wales ; Victoria. 
Adult male. Back and wings blue-grey ; head and neck aU round and entire under sur- 
face of the body pure white including the axillaries and under tail-coverts ; upper 
tail-coverts and tail also white as well as the small coverts round the bend of the 
wings, both above and below ; inner under wing-coverts inchning to grey ; bastard- 
wing and primary-coverts white ; the first primary black with a white mirror 
*The Plate is lettered Larus novce-hollarkdice. 
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