618 



GA VlJi. 



i-auiua;. 



LA RID.E. 



Laeus argentatus, Gmelin.* 

 THE HERRING GULL. 



Lavas argentatus. 



The Herring Gull is a resident and generally distributed 

 species on the coasts of the British Islands ; and on the 

 lofty cliifs of the south coast, from Beachy Head to Cornwall, 

 it is more numerous in the breeding-season than any other 

 kind of Gull. It is very abundant at Lundy Island in the 

 Bristol Channel ; also on the coast of Wales, where there 

 is an especially large colony on the Stacks off Holyhead ; 

 it breeds on the cliffs of Cumberland, and, according to 

 Mr. A. Durnford (Zool. 1879, p. 339), on Foulshaw Moss, 

 near Arnside, in Westmoreland, in proximity to a far larger 



* Syst. Nat. i. \<. 600 (1788), ex Bhinnidi. 



