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a large terminal portion of the secondaries^ and the tips of the pri- 
maries, which are white ; first primary black, with a tinge of grey on 
the inner web at the base ; second and third similar, with the grey 
more extended ; the fourth with it extending over two-thirds, the fifth 
black only for an inch and a half, on the sixth the black reduced to 
two spots near the end ; the other parts and the remaining primaries 
of the same general colour as the back. Female similar, but consider- 
ably smaller. In winter, the head white, the feathers on its upper 
part and the nape more or less brownish-grey in their concealed part, 
that colour appearing in slight patches here and there, and especially 
along the posterior margin of the part that is coloured in summer, as 
well as on a small space before the eye ; in other respects the plumage 
as in summer, but without the rosy tint. Young, when fledged, with 
the bill, feet, inside of mouth, and edges of eyelids olivaceous brown ; 
upper parts brownish-grey, the feathers edged with paler ; hind part 
of back light bluish-grey ; upper tail-coverts nearly white ; tail pale 
greyish-blue, with a broad band of brownish-black at the end, the ex- 
treme tips narrowly edged with white, the outer margin of the lateral 
feathers of the same colour ; the first four primaries destitute of white 
at the tip ; a small patch before the eye, two slight bands on the eye- 
lids, and the throat, greyish- white ; lower part of neck brownish-grey ; 
the rest of the lower parts greyish- white, the sides darker, the axillars 
ash-grey, lower surface of wing dusky grey. 
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Most abundant from Texas to Massachusetts, breeding along the 
coast. Up the Mississippi to New Orleans. Those which in spring 
remove to the eastward of the Floridas return early in autumn. 
Black-headed Gull, Lai’us ridibundus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. ix. p. 89. 
Larus atricilla, Bonap. Syn. p. 359. 
Black-headed Gtill, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 291. 
Black-headed or Laughing Gull, Larus atricilla, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 118. 
445. 5. Larus Franklinii, Richardson. Franklin’s Rosy 
Gull. 
Not figured. 
Bill rather stout, and with the feet vermilion ; mantle pearl-grey ; 
wings an inch and a half longer than the tail, which is even ; five ex- 
terior quills barred with black, the first one tipped with white for an 
inch ; tarsus twenty lines long ; hood black in summer. Both eye- 
lids, the neck, rump, tail, and whole under plumage white, the latter 
and interior of the wings deeply tinged with peach-blossom red ; 
black hood covering three-quarters of an inch of the nape, and extend- 
ing as much lower on the throat; mantle and wings bluish-grey; the 
outer web of the first quill-feathers is black to near the top, and a broad 
band of the same crosses the ends of the five outer primaries ; all the 
quill-feathers are terminated with white, that of the first primary and 
