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called the Kittiwake, Lams 7'issa ; l)ut this is a point satis- 

 factorily ascertained now. The figure in our illustration with 

 the dark-coloured markings on the neck and wings, is taken 

 from a young bird of the year ; the other figure is from an 

 adult bird killed at the Isle of Wight, early in the month of 

 June. 



Colonel Montagu was certainly mistaken in considering 

 the Kittiwake a rare bird on our southern coast. This Gull 

 is decidedly a rock-breeder, and very common in the breeding 

 season on all the rocky parts of the coast of Hampshire, Dor- 

 setshire, Devonshire, and part of Cornwall. I have seen 

 hundreds in one day, in the first week in June, between the 

 Needle Rocks and Freshwater Gate in the Isle of Wiffht. 

 Mr. Thompson mentions that it is only a summer-visiter to 

 Ireland, and it is known to migrate in autumn from the 

 coasts of Durham, Northumberland, Scotland, from the 

 Scotch Islands, and from all the numerous places still further 

 north, to which it resorts for the breeding-season ; but Dr. 

 Edward Moore mentions having killed the young bird in 

 Devonshire in November. I am confident that I have seen 

 this species in winter in Dorsetshire and Hampshire ; and 

 M. Vieillot says it is stationary on the coast of France. 

 That many go far south in winter the localities to be here- 

 after quoted will prove. 



The young bird, while bearing on its plumage the dark- 

 coloured markings, has been called the Tarrock ; the adult 

 bird is the Kittiwake, and the name has reference to the cry 

 of this Gull, which, when disturbed at its breeding-station, 

 utters three notes in quick succession, which closely resemble 

 in sound the word in question. A writer in the Field Na- 

 turalists' Magazine, in his Notes from the Isle of Wight, 

 volume ii. page 74, mentions a very curious fact in reference 

 to a Gull, which I believe to have been a Kittiwake. He 

 says, " In the next parish to this there is a Gull, either the 



