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Professor Ansted includes the Lesser Black- 

 backed Gull in his list, but only marks it as 

 occurring in Guernsey. There is one specimen in 

 the Museum. 



169. Common Gull. Larns canus, Linnaeus. 

 French, " Goeland cendre," '' Mouette a pieds 

 bleus,"* ''La Mouette d'Hiver."f— The Common 

 Gull, though by no means uncommon in the 

 Channel Islands during the winter, never remains 

 to breed there, nor does it do so, I believe, any 

 where in the West of England, certainly not in 

 Somerset or Devon, as stated by Mr. Dresser in 

 the ' Birds of Europe,\/?V/r the Eev. M. A. Mathew 

 and Mr. W. D. Crotch, who must have made some 

 mistake as to its breeding in those two counties ; 

 in Cornwall it is said to breed, by Mr. Dresser, on 

 the authority of Mr. Eodd. Mr. Dresser, however, 

 does not seem to have had his authority direct from 

 either of these gentlemen, and only quotes it from 

 Mr. A. G. More. Mr. Eodd, however, in his 

 ' Notes on the Birds of Cornwall,' pubhshed in the 

 ' Zoologist ' for 1870, only says, " Generally dis- 

 tributed in larger or smaller numbers along or near 

 our coasts," which would be equally true of the 

 Channel Islands, although it does not breed there ; 

 however, as Mr. Eodd is going to publish his 

 interesting notes on the Birds of Cornwall in a 



^' See Temminck's 'Man. d'Ornithologie. 

 f Buffon. 



