LITTLE GULL. 



GA VI. ^. 



589 



LA RIB J?. 



Larus minutus, Pallas*. 

 THE LITTLE GULL. 



Larus miniitus. 



This interesting little Palsearctic Gull, the smallest of its 

 genus, was first described and figured as a British bird by 

 Colonel Montagu, in the Appendix to the Suj^plement of his 

 Ornithological Dictionary, from a young bird in the plumage 

 of the first year that was shot on the Thames near Chelsea, 

 and then in the possession of Mr. Plasted of that place, at 

 the sale of whose collection it passed into the possession of 

 Mr. Leadbeater. Mr. Bullock's celebrated collection con- 



* Reise Russische Reichs, iii. p. 702, App. no. 35 (1776). 



