614 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
The eggs vary in colour, but the more general 
appears to be a yellowish brown, tinged with green 
and sparingly spotted with slate-grey and dark 
brown. 
Guaucous Guu, Larus glaucus. ‘The Glaucous 
Gull, which fully equals in size the last-mentioned 
species, is a northern bird, seldom visiting the more 
southern counties of England: it has, however, been 
taken in most of the counties, including the neigh- 
bouring county of Devon: in this gounty I have 
been informed by the Rev. Murray A. Mathew that 
it has been taken at Weston-super-Mare, and Yar- 
rell’s drawing is from one that was taken on the 
Severn near Bristol. 
The Glaucous Gull is not very particular about 
its diet, eating nearly any sort of animal food or 
carrion: it kills and eats small birds, as their bones 
have been found in its stomach, and one when shot 
disgorged a Little Auk, and a second was found in 
its stomach.* It feeds also on whales’ flesh and any 
fish or shell-fish it can get, and it robs the nests of 
other sea-birds, and eats either eggs or young: it 
seems also occasionally to try a vegetable diet, as its 
stomach has been found filled with sea-weed. t 
Yarrell quotes two accounts of the nesting pro- 
pensities of this bird, one of which says that the 
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*- Yarrell, vol. i., p. 619. 
+ ‘ Zoologist’ for 1865, p. 9521. 
