LITTLE GULL. 



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upper surface of tail-feathers white, with a broad terminal 

 band of black, which is broadest on the middle feathers, the 

 outer tail-feather on each side wholly white ; all the under 

 surface of the body and wings, under tail-coverts, and each 

 outside tail-feather white, the other tail-feathers white with a 

 narrower margin of greyish-black ; legs, toes, and interdigital 

 membranes in this preserved specimen pale yellow-brown. 

 Whole length ten inches and one-eighth ; wing from the 

 wrist eight inches and three-quarters. 



I am indebted to the kindness of the Rev. W. Alderson, 

 of Ashton, near Sheffield, for the use of a clever drawing, 

 from which the vignette below was taken. A Heron was 

 seen one evening going to a piece of water to feed ; the spot 

 was visited the next morning, when it was discovered, that 

 the Heron had struck its sharp beak through the head of an 

 eel, piercing both eyes ; the eel thus held had coiled itself so 

 tightly round the neck of the Heron as to stop the bird's 

 respiration, and both were dead. 



