LAUGHING GULL. 



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NATATORES. 



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THE LAUGHING GULL. 



Larus atricilla, Laughing Gull, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 193. 



„ ,, ,, ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



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



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 273. 



Xema ,, Bluck-winged ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xxii. 



Larus ,, Mouelte a capuchon ylomhc, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 779. 



and vol. iv. p. 483. 



This species, called the Laughing Gull by Catesby in his 

 natural history of Carolina, was made known as a visiter to 

 the British shores by Colonel Montagu, who, in his Ornitho- 

 logical Dictionary, says, " Li the month of August, 1774, 

 we saw five of them together feeding in a pool in the Shing- 

 ley Flats near Winchelsea ; two only were black on the 

 head, the others were mottled all over with brown. One of 

 them was shot ; but, although the remaining four continued 



