. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. LAlilDiE —THE GULLS AND TERNS — LARDS. 225 Lams marinus. THE BLACK-BACKED GULL. Larus marimia, Linn. S. N. cd. 10, i. 1758,136 ; cd. 12,, 225. — Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 308.— Auu. Oru. Biog. IlL 1835, 305 ; V. 1839, 030, pi. 2il; Syiiop. 1839, 329 ; B. Am. VII. 1814,172, 1)1. 450. — Lawu. iu Baiids H. N. Am. 1858, 844. — Baikd, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. CCO.— CoUES, Key, 1872, 312 ; Check List, 1873, no. 546; 2d ed. 1882, no. 771; B. N. W. 1874, 024. — III now. Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 663. Laru
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. LAlilDiE —THE GULLS AND TERNS — LARDS. 225 Lams marinus. THE BLACK-BACKED GULL. Larus marimia, Linn. S. N. cd. 10, i. 1758,136 ; cd. 12,, 225. — Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 308.— Auu. Oru. Biog. IlL 1835, 305 ; V. 1839, 030, pi. 2il; Syiiop. 1839, 329 ; B. Am. VII. 1814,172, 1)1. 450. — Lawu. iu Baiids H. N. Am. 1858, 844. — Baikd, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. CCO.— CoUES, Key, 1872, 312 ; Check List, 1873, no. 546; 2d ed. 1882, no. 771; B. N. W. 1874, 024. — III now. Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 663. Larus niijcr, 1760, 158. Larus navius, Linn. S. N. L 1766, 225. Larus maculatus, Bonn. Tabl. P. E. 1783,16 (nee BuiJNN. 1764). Larus maximus, Leacii, Cat. 1816, 40. Larus MaUrri, Bueiim, Viig. Deutschl. 1831, 729, Larus Fabricii, , t. c. 730. ILvB. Coasts of the North Atlantic ; in America, south in winter to Long Island and the Great Lakes ? Sr. Char. Size very large (about equal to L. glaucus). Adult, summer plumnye : Mantle dark bruwnisli slate, the secondaries and tertials broadly (the former aljruptly) tipped with white ; first primary black, with the end for a distance of about inches, white ; .second similar, but the white tip marked near the end by a broad black bar on one or both webs; fourth <iuill black, tipped with white ; fifth and sixth quills more slaty, tipped with white, and with a wiile black subterniinal space, preceded by an irregu- lar white bar; shorter quills li^'liter slate, widely tipped with white. Rest of the plu- mage pure white. " Bill gani- bii^'e-yellow, the lower mandi- ble bright carmine towartl the end ; edges of eyelids bright carmine ; iris silvery ; feet yellow ;^ claws black"(AuDtJ- uon). Adult, in vinter: Sim- ilar to the summer plumage, but head and neck, superiorly and posteriorly, streaked with dusky, YouHij, first ])lumage: Above, dark slate-brown, the featlu'rs broadly bordered with
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