. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . n the promotion of naturalhistory on the late Arctic voyages, in all of which he bore a part. Of thepeculiar habits or winter retreat of this species nothing is known. Description of a specimen killed, June 1S23, at Alagnak, Melville Penin-sula, lat. 694° N. Colour.—Scapulars, inter-scapulars, and both surfaces of the wings clearpearl-grey; outer web of the first quill blackish-brown to its tip, which isgrey; tips of the scapulars and lesser quills whitish. Some small feathersnear the eye, and a collar rou
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . n the promotion of naturalhistory on the late Arctic voyages, in all of which he bore a part. Of thepeculiar habits or winter retreat of this species nothing is known. Description of a specimen killed, June 1S23, at Alagnak, Melville Penin-sula, lat. 694° N. Colour.—Scapulars, inter-scapulars, and both surfaces of the wings clearpearl-grey; outer web of the first quill blackish-brown to its tip, which isgrey; tips of the scapulars and lesser quills whitish. Some small feathersnear the eye, and a collar round the middle of the neck pitch black; rest ofthe plumage white. The neck above and the whole under plumage deeplytinged with peach-blossom red in recent specimens. Bill black; its rictusand the edges of the eyelids reddish-orange. Legs and feet vermilion-red;nails blackish. Form.—Bill slender, weak, with a scarcely perceptible salient anglebeneath; the upper mandible slightly arched and compressed towards thepoint; the commissure slightly curved at the tip. Wings an inch longer. Sfc ^ BONAPARTES GULL, 131 than the decidedly cuneiform tail, of which the central feathers are an inchlonger than the lateral. Tarsi rather stout; the thumb very distinct, armedwith a nail as large as that of the outer toe. The other specimen killed by Mr. Sherer a few days later, differs onlyin the first primary coverts having the same dark colour with the outer webof the first primary itself. Length to end of tail 14 inches; tail 5^; wing 10^; bill along the ridge|-; rictus H; from nostril to tip of bill ff; tarsus lTVj middle toe yf, itsnail #» Larcs Rossii, Cuneate-tailed Gull, Swains, and Rich. F. Bor. Araer., vol. ii. p. Gull, Larus fiossii, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 324. Adult, 14; wing 10|.Arctic Seas. BONAPARTES GULL. -4- Larus Bonapartii, Richardson. PLATE CCCCXLIL—Male, Female, and Young. My first acquaintance with this species took place whilst I was at Cin-cinnati, in t
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