Not figured.
"Bill rather stout, and with the feet vermilion; mantle pearl-grey;
wings an inch and a half longer than the tail, which is even; five
exterior quills barred with black, the first one tipped with white for
an inch; tarsus twenty lines long; hood black in summer. Both eyelids,
the neck, rump, tail, and whole under plumage white, the latter and
interior of the wings deeply tinged with peach-blossom red; black hood
covering three-quarters of an inch of the nape, and extending as much
lower on the throat; mantle and wings bluish-grey; the outer web of
the first quill-feathers is black to near the top, and a broad band of
the same crosses the ends of the five outer primaries; all the
quill-feathers are terminated with white, that of the first primary
and of all the secondaries being upwards of an inch long; all the
shafts whitish."
_Male_, 17, wing, 11.
Interior of Fur Countries, breeding on the edges of large lakes.
Larus Franklinii, Franklin's Rosy Gull, Swains. & Rich. F.
Bor. Amer. v. ii p. 424.
Franklin's Rosy Gull, Larus Franklinii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v.
p. 323.