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Show 1878.] MR. H. SAUNDERS ON THE LARINEE. 185 In spite of the somewhat peculiar shape of the bill in this species I hardly think it desirable to place it on that account in a distinct genus, especially as Bonaparte's genus Leucophceus also includes such dissimilar species as the present and L. heermanni of North America. His Procellarus is founded on a young bird of the same species! Larus scoresbii, however, is a very well-marked species, from its short, stout, crimson bill, and coarse legs and feet, the webs of the latter being a good deal incised. In the immature stage this bird has a sooty hood; but in the adult the upper parts are grey. 26. LARUS NOV^E-HOLLANDLE, Steph. (Fig. 1.) Larus novee-hollandice, Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. p. 196 (1826), ex Latham. Larus scopulinus, var. major, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 106 (1844). Fig. 1. Three outer primaries of L. novee-hollandice, jr. (from the type of Gavia pomarre, Bruch, of 1853, not of 1855). Larus jamesonii, Wilson, 111. Zool. pl. xxiii. (1831). Xema jamesonii, Gould, Birds of Australia, vol. vii. pl. xx (1848). Gavia jamesonii, Wils. Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1853, p. 102; 1855 p. 285. |
