Has anyone else seen the white juvenal Laughing Gull hanging around Maryland's southern eastern shore? Its tail band and primaries are a warm brown, which I will describe as the color of a coffee stain. Its folded primaries are fairly dark but I saw no hint of black pigment. The underparts and back are white. The upper wing coverts are a warm brown, similar to the tail band, but light enough to pass for white with a quick look. The bird had pink legs and a pink bill. It gave me the impression of a dark (right) eye, but I was not close enough to be sure I could see the iris. I did not look at its left eye. The bird was loafing with a large flock of regular Laughing Gulls at the E.A. Vaughn WMA pond, late afternoon, Friday, August 13, 1999. I am basing the identification on the bird's size and bill shape which match the Laughing Gulls in the flock and its age on the presence of a tail band. Quite a pretty bird. Too bad it wasn't a quick look at a distant fly-by; no telling what I would have called it. Dave David Mozurkewich Seabrook, MD USA dm@fornax.usno.navy.mil