606 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
brown, especially on the inner webs; the tips are 
brown, edged with white: in this specimen nearly the 
whole of the old feathers are excessively ragged and 
worn; the tips of some are quite worn off, the shafts 
being left projecting. The adult bird has the bill 
yellow; the angle on the lower mandible red; irides 
straw-yellow; the whole of the head, neck all round, 
breast, belly, flanks, tail and tail-coverts, pure white ; 
the back, scapulars, wing-coverts and tertials dark 
slate-colour, approaching to black ; the longer seapu- 
lars and the tertials are tipped with white; the 
primaries are black, tipped with white; legs and feet 
yellow. 
The eggs vary in colour, some being of a dark 
olive-brown, and others pale drab: they are spotted 
with ash-grey and two shades of brown. 
Herring Guru, Larus argentatus. This Gull 
seems to me by far the most common of all the 
Gulls, both on our channel, the Bristol, and on the 
Iinglish, outuumbering either the Common Gull or 
the Kittiwake. It breeds in great numbers at Lundy 
Island and many other places on both sides of the 
Bristol Channel, generally amongst the grandest and 
most lofty cliffs, where the birds enliven the scene 
by their wild cry and yet wilder laugh, which, by the 
bye, always reminds me of the Zoological Gardens, 
even though anchored in Lundy Roads or scrambling 
over the wild cliffs of Alderney or Sark. 
I am sorry to say at many of the breeding stations 
