LITTLE GULL 409 
appears to be that of a bird procured near Penzance, on 
October 20th, 1890 (Harting, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1891, p. 35). 
DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial—Head and neck, dark 
plumbeous-black ; back, scapulars, and wings, ‘ pearl’ grey ; 
throat, breast, and abdomen, white; first primary, white, 
tipped and edged on the outer web with black ; remaining 
primaries, Barred near their extremities with black, the 
inner webs being whitish-grey ; tail, pure white. 
Adult female nuptial.— °- Similar in plumage to the male. 
Adult winter, male and female.—Ditters from the nuptial 
plumage in that the head and neck are white, siightly 
mottled with grey, especially over the ear-coverts. 
Immature, male and female.—Top of head, brownish- 
erey ; back of neck, back, and wings, edged with brown and 
hight buff ; scapulars, broadly margined with very lght 
buffish- white ; three outer primaries, black on both sides 
of the shaft; tail, white, with a broad brown band at its 
terminal portion. 
Beak. Black. 
FEET. Orange-red. 
IripEs. Dark brown. 
Eaacs. Greenish-brown, spotted, streaked, and zoned, 
with dark brown: clutch, two to three. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
TOTAL LENGTH 3 a, AS Sine 
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LITTLE GULL. Larus minutus (Pallas). 
Coloured Figures.—Gould, ‘ Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. v, pl. 
66; Dresser, ‘Birds of Europe,’ vol. viii, pls. 599, 599a; 
Lilford, ‘ Coloured Figures,’ vol. vi, pl. 18; Booth, ‘Rough 
Notes,’ vol. iii, pl. 34. 
The Little Gull—so named on account of its diminutive 
size—is of comparatively rare occurrence along our sea- 
