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Mr. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton on 
No. 9. Sex not noted, Karaga Village, August 21, 1897. 
Colour of bill, both inside and outside, yellow ; of gape, 
eye-ring, and soft parts of interior of mouth crimson; 
of legs light yellow; of claws a peculiar tint of yellowish 
horn. The descriptions of the colours having been taken from 
the note made by me at the time, I have not checked the 
nomenclature, and it will be noted that the parts of the 1896 
bird called vermilion are in 1897 called crimson. There is 
probably, however, some variation in the tint of red of these 
parts, for in Stejneger’s description of L. kamtsckatchensis 
(Bp.) the eye-ring is called vermilion in one and dull 
reddish in another specimen. 
No. 10. Juv., Karaga Village, August 21, 1897. Colour 
of bill a mixture of horn- and flesh-colour; of iris hazel; 
of legs and feet pale flesh ; of claws horn. 
It is rather refreshing to meet a species like this and the 
next, which, although occurring at the opposite ends of 
the Palsnarctic Region, cannot be divided into subspecies. 
Dr. Stejneger had only one specimen of L. canus from 
Kamchatkan regions, and that was from Bering Island, 
and not from the mainland, to which the bird would there¬ 
fore appear to be new. But I suspect that Dr. Stejneger 
would call my specimen L. kamtsckatchensis (Bp.), a form 
which is not accepted by our British authorities, and which, 
if distinguishable, must be remarkably close to L. canus. 
L. kamtsckatchensis is said to be not common in Kamchatka, 
where, however, it probably breeds. My Karaga specimens 
extend the range of the bird (under whichever name it is 
preferred to designate it). The breeding-place of Gulls 
found on the Karaga river was probably one belonging to 
this species, and the specimen no. 9 must have been bred in 
North Kamchatka. Among my birds from the Commander 
Islands is a straggler of L. canus in first plumage (according 
to Mr. Howard Saunders), obtained on Copper Island, 
August 20th, 1896. 
Larus ridibundus Linn. 
Nos. 11-12. Two $, in breeding-plumage, Petropavlovsk, 
