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FRANKLIN’S ROSY GULL. 
Larus Franklinii, Richardson. 
(NOl figured.) 
The following account of this species by Dr. Richardson is taken from 
the Fauna Boreali-Americana. 
“ Franklin’s Rosy Gull, with vermilion bill and feet ; mantle pearl-grey ; 
five exterior quills broadly barred with black, the first one tipped with white 
for an inch ; tarsus twenty lines long ; hood black in summer. 
“ This is a very common Gull in the interior of the Fur Countries, where 
it frequents the shores of the larger lakes, It is generally seen in flocks, and 
is very noisy. It breeds in marshy places. Ord’s description of his Black- 
headed Gull (Wils: ix. p. 89) corresponds with our specimens, except that 
the conspicuous white end of the first quill is not noticed : the figure (PI. 
74, fig. 4) differs in the primaries, being entirely black. The Prince of 
Musignano gives the totally black primaries and a tarsus nearly two inches 
long, as part of the specific character of his Larus Atricilla , to which he 
refers Wilson’s bird ; though, in his Observations , he states that the adult 
specimens -have the primaries, with the exception of the first and second, 
tipped with white. L. Franklinii cannot be referred either to the L. 
Atricilla or L. melanocephalus of M. Temminck : the first has a lead 
coloured hood and deep black quill-feathers, untipped by white ; and the 
black hood of the second does not descend lower on the throat than on the 
nape ; its quill-feathers are also differently marked, and its tarsus is longer. 
His L. Ridibundus and L. capistratus have brown heads, and the interior of 
the wings grey ; the latter has also a much smaller bill than our L. Frank- 
linii. 
“Description of a male killed June 6, 1827, on the Saskatchewan. 
“ Colour. — Both eyelids, 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 
extending as much lower on the throat. Mantle and wings bluish-grey. 
The outer web of the first quill-feather is black to’ near the tip, and a broad 
aand of the same crosses the ends of the five outer primaries ; all the quill- 
feathers are terminated with white, that on the first primary and of all the 
