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Show 194 MR. H. SAUNDEHS ON THE LARIN.E. [Feb. 5, Larus hemprichi, Heugl. Ibis, 1859, p. 350 ; Kdnig-Warth. Ibis, I860, p. 129 (nidif.); Schleg. Mus. P.-Bas, Lari, p. 32 ; Finsch, Trans. Zool. S. vii. pt. vi. p. 302, pl. xxvii. ; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 823; Blanford, Abyssinia, p. 441 (Red Sea); Hume, Stray Feath. i. p. 279 ; Blanford, East Persia, ii. p. 292 (Aden to Kurrachee harbour); Hume, Stray F. 1876, p. 414; Butler, op. cit. 1877, p. 296. Hab. This Gull appears to have a wider range than its congener L. leucophthalmus, as it is not confined to the Red Sea south of the tropic, but also frequents the Persian Gulf and the coast eastward as far as Bombay. Von Heuglin and Baron Konig von Warthausen (loc. cit.) have given an excellent account of the habits and nidifi-cation of both these species ; and more recently in ' Stray Feathers ' Capt. Butler has given a description of the great colony on the island of Astola. In the Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France, lre partie, 1877, p. 32, M . Jules Vian gives an account of two immature specimens, one of L. leucophthalmus and one of L. hemprichi, which were supposed to have been obtained on the coast of Nice. M. Vian showed me these specimens when I was last in Paris; and they are undoubtedly genuine examples of the respective species. M. Vian thinks that the opening of the Suez Canal may have caused their appearance upon the shores of France ; I cannot prove the contrary, but, from the make-up of the skins, I must confess I am very sceptical as to their having got so far as Nice alive. They had passed through at least one, if not two dealers' hands before M . Vian saw them. 33. LARUS ATRICILLA, Linn. Larus atricilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 225 (1766), nee Pallas (ex Catesby) ; G m . Syst. Nat. i. p. 600 (1788); Temm. Man. d'Orn. ed. 2, pt. ii. p. 779 (Mediterranean, in error) ; Montagu, Orn. Diet. Rennie's ed. p. 259 (1833) (Winchelsea); Schl. M. P.-Bas, Lari, p. 44 (1863) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 576 ; Coues, B. N.-West Am. p. 650 (1874); Reid, Zoologist, 1877, p. 489 (Bermudas). Larus ridibundus, Wilson, Am. Orn. ix. p. 89, pl. 74. fig. 4 (1814), nee Linn. ; Leotaud, Ois. de Trinidad, p. 532. Xema atricilla, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 563 ; Cab. in Schomb. Guiana, iii. p. 761. Gavia atricilla, Macgill. Man. Brit. Orn. ii. p. 240 (1842). Chroicocephalus atricilla, Bruch, J.f. Orn. 1853, p. 106 ; Lawr. B. N. A m . p. 850 (1858). Chroicocephalus serranus, Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1853, p. 106 (nee Tschudi). Atricilla catesbyi, Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1855, p. 287. "Atricilla megalopterus," Bp.; Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1855, p. 287- "Atricilla micropterus," Bp.; Bruch, torn. cit. p. 288. Hab. America, from Maine, on the east coast, down to the mouth of the Amazons and to the West-Indian Islands; on the west coast, |