426 



LA RIDE. 



NATATORES. 



LAPIDJE. 



THE LITTLE GULL. 



Larus 



Chroicocephaliis ,, 

 Xema ,, 



Larus ,, 



minutus, Little Cull, RIont. Supp. Oinitli. Diet. 



,, ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 246. 



,, ,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 142. 



,, ,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornitli. vol. ii. p. 484. 



,, ,, ,, .Fenvns, Brit. Vert. p. 271. 



,, ,, Eyton, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 61. 



,, ,, Gould, Birds of F.uropc, pt. xi. 



Moueltc piigmte, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 787. 



This interesting Little Gull, the smallest I believe of its 

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

 Colonel Montagu, in the Appendix to the Supplement of his 

 Ornithological Dictionary, from a young bird in the plumage 

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



