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Show 1878.] MR. H. SAUNDERS ON THE LARIN.E. 205 Bay, Damaraland, and at Lake Ngami (Chapman). I possess or have examined specimens from the above localities. The species may extend as far as the Cape of Good Hope and to the south-east coast; but of this I have no positive information. This species is very closely allied to L. cirrhocephalus; but it is smaller, and the bill and feet are orange-red, whilst in the larger American species those soft parts are of a deep lake-colour ; and the feathers in this species do not come down so close to the base of the nostrils-differences which are quite sufficient to separate the two forms. The African species was long confounded with L. hartlaubi of the Cape of Good Hope, a bird belonging to a totally distinct group, and which never has a hood at all. 44. LARUS SAUNDERSI (Swinhoe). (Fig. 15.) "Gavia kittlitzii, Bruch," Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 68 (not of Bruch, which is described from a drawing and is L. franklini). Larus schimperi, Schlegel, M . P.-Bas, Lari, p. 40, 1863 (not of Bruch, 1853, nor of Bp., which =L. franklini). Three outer primaries of L. saundersi, ad. Chroicocephalus kittlitzii, Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 428, et P. Z. S. p. 328. Xema kittlitzii, David, N . Arch. Mus. Bull. vu. 1871, no. 461. Chroicocephalus saundersi, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 273, 421, pl. 22; David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 523 (1877). Hab. The coasts of China, especially about Amoy, in winter |