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Show '98 MR. H. SAUNDERS ON THE LARINEE. [Feb. 5, Chroicocephalus brannicephalus, Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1853, p. 105. Chroicocephalus brunniceps, Cabanis, J. f. Orn. 1853, p. 105 (note); Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1855, p. 291. Chroicocephalus brunneicephalus, Bp. Compt. Rend. Ac. Sc. xii. p. 73 (1856); Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 421 ; Dav. et Oust. O. de la Chine, p. 521. Xema brunneicephalum, A. David, N. Arch. Mus., Bull. vii. no. 460(1871). Larus lacrymosus, Licht. (Bengal, imm.), type in Berlin Mus. (examined, H. S.). Gavina lacrymosus (Licht.); Bp. Naum. 1854, p. 212. Gavia brunnicephalus (Jard.) ; Bp. Naum. 1854, p. 213. Chroicocephalus tibetanus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 54. [Tibet, Major Hay.] Xema brunneicephala, Hume, Yarkand Exp. Orn. p. 300, pi. xxxii. (1873); Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1875, pt. ii. p. 162 (Burma). Hab. Henderson found this Gull very abundant in full breeding-plumage in July, at an elevation of 15,000 feet, near the Pangong lake ; and in winter it occurs both on the inland waters and along the coast of India, as far west as Sind. Eastward it occurs in Burma and visits Ceylon, where it is abundant. David obtained it abundantly in Mongolia and China, apparently as near to the sea-board as Pekin. Taczanowski, however, does not cite it amongst the species found in any part of Siberia; and it is therefore doubtful if it can be Middendorff's L. ridibundus, var. major. As regards its reported occurrence in Japan, Cassin's bird obtained in Parry's expedition is clearly L. ridibundus. 37. LARUS ICHTHYAETUS, Pall. Larus ichthyaetus, Pallas, It. ii. App. no. 27 (1776), Caspian; Gm. Syst, Nat. i. p. 599 (1788); Pallas, Zoogr. Ros.-As. ii. p. 322 (1811) ; Riipp. Reise N. Afr. Atlas, p. 27, pl. 17 (1826), Red Sea; Cassin, Perry's Exp. Japan, ii. p. 232 (1856) (?) ; Tristram, Ibis, 1868, p. 330, Palestine; Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 307, pl. 13 (1872) j Schlegel, M . P.-Bas, Lari, p. 34 (1863) ; Dresser, B. of Europe, pt. xviii. (June 1873). Ichthyaetus, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. pp.102,169 (1829), type of genus Ichthyaetus. Xema ichthyaetum, Bp. B. Eur. & N. A m . p. 62 (1838). Larus kroicocephalus, Jameson, Journ. As. Soc. viii. p. 242(1839). Kroikocephalus ichthyeetus, Jerdon, B. of India, iii. p. 831 (1864). Chroicocephalus icthyaetus, Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1853, p. 104; Swinhoe, P.Z. S. 1863, p. 327. Larus ichthyaetus minor, Schl. M . P.-Bas, Lari, p. 34 (1863). Hub. Caspian Sea and inland lakes, Lake of Galilee (Tristram), Mediterranean coast of Egypt and up to Nubia, the Red Sea, thence to Bombay and down the coast to Madras, and on the lakes and large rivers of Northern India. As a straggler, in the Black Sea and the Greek Archipelago, and once at the mouth of the Exe, in Eng- |
