432 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



bird in question was flying in company with several of 

 the connnon Herring Gulls {Lai'us argentatus), a.nd ipsLSsed 

 unusually close to the observers. The bird was noticed 

 to have orange-coloured legs, not only by the recorder* 

 but by his brother and the Hon. F. E. Henley" {Bulletin 

 of the B.O.C., vol. xiv., p. 91, 1904). 



LESSEE GREY GULL. 



Larus camis, Linnaeus. S.N., i., p. 224 (1766). 



Winter Gull, Boys, 1792 ; Cobb or Sea Cobb. 



This pretty Gull is a regular spring and autumn 

 visitor to Kent. They generally remain all the winter 

 along the coast. During the open weather they may 

 be seen in large numbers in the marshes, on the ploughed 

 land, and even following the plough in flocks ; they go 

 far inland in search of freshly turned-up fields. 



On October 23, 1905, at the top of the hills overlooking 

 Eomney Marsh, on the road to Lympne, a pair or two 

 were flying overhead, and near the village a flock of over 

 twenty were following a plough close to the road, and 

 in the Marsh itself similar flocks were found acting in 

 the same manner. On other occasions, tw^os, threes 

 and fours were nearly always to be found passing over 

 close to the ground on the recently turned soil. 



