596 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
band at the tip; the legs, toes and webs are black. 
In this state of plumage it is the ‘“ Tarrock” of 
Bewick and some earlier authors. The black band 
at the back of the neck is the first part of this 
Tarrock plumage which disappears — Mr. Blake- 
Knox, in his paper on the plumages of the Kittiwake 
(‘ Zoologist’ for 1867, p. 548), says—in the second 
summer; but it is not equally clear from his paper 
when the bird loses the black markings of the wing: 
they certainly appear very reluctant to depart en- 
tirely, for I have seen birds, otherwise in nearly . 
adult plumage, with a few black specks still left on 
the lesser wing-coverts, and I have shot, in Novem- 
ber, out of the same flock, and indeed at the same 
shot, birds in perfect Tarrock plumage, with the 
black band at the bottom of the neck quite perfect, 
and others again in which that had entirely dis- 
appeared, but the Tarrock markings on the wings 
were still quite perfect: these birds were then 
exactly in the same plumage as the Little Gull 
before mentioned. The following description of the 
adult in winter plumage is taken from the bird before 
mentioned as having been picked up at Crowcombe 
Heathfield in the beginning of March: it does not 
appear at that time to have been at all changing to 
its summer plumage :—the bill is lemon-yellow; the 
forehead to the top of the head, space from the bill 
to the eye, all under the eye and a patch behind the 
eye, chin, throat, breast and all the under parts, tail 
