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NATATORFS. 



I.ARIDJt]. 



THE COMMON GULL. 



Lurus canus. The Common Gull, Penn. Biit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 184. 

 V ,, Whiter New, ,, ,, ,, ,, 185.* 



,, ,, Common. Gull, Mont. Ornitli. Diet. 



,, ,, Common ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 236. 



,, ,, ,, „ Fleji. Brit. An. p. 140. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 490. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 275. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. .\xi, 



,, ,, Mouelte a pieds blens, Temm. Man. d"Ornith. vol. ii. p. 771. 



The Common Gull, as its name "would imply, is pretty 

 generally diffused around the coast, tliough more plentiful in 

 some situations than in others, and varies a little in its habits 

 depending on the locality in which it is found. Both in 

 Kent and Essex, where those counties bound the estuary of 



* Lams hiibtrneiis, of Gmelin, and La Mouette d'hiver, of Buflon. 



