454 LARID/E. 



Mr. Thompson says the Common Gull remains all the year 

 in Ireland ; it is found also all round the south and east 

 coast, from Wales to Sussex, and from thence to Norfolk 

 and Lincolnshire. At St. Abb's Head, a bold and rocky 

 headland of Berwickshire, these birds, Mr. Selby says, are 

 very numerous during the breeding-season, and occupy the 

 Avhole face of the cliff. In Sutherlandshire, the same species, 

 Mr. Selby observes, has several breeding-stations ; viz. upon 

 Loch Shin, Loch Laighal, and various smaller lochs. Mr. J, 

 Macgillivray noticed the Common Gull on several islets of 

 the Outer Hebrides ; there it was found occasionally breed- 

 ing in the interior. In Orkney and Shetland, Mr. Dunn 

 says, I have found a few pairs incubating in company with the 

 Herring Gull, and occasionally a solitary pair breeding in the 

 cliffs without any associates ; they may be found occasionally 

 on the small islands in the lakes. 



Professor Nilsson considers this bird one of the common 

 Gulls in Sweden ; it was seen in Norway by Mr. Hewitson, 

 who states that two thousand eo'gs were gathered for the use 

 of the inhabitants from one island only. Linneus, in his 

 tour in Lapland, mentions having seen hundreds of this Gull 

 in the corn-fields of Westbothland, and one also on the Lap- 

 land Alps. It is found at the Faroe Islands ; and Mr. 

 Proctor observed that it was plentiful at Iceland. It is in- 

 cluded in a list of birds found by Naturalists at Nova Zcmbla, 

 and was observed by Dr. Richardson in Arctic America. 



This species is common on the shores of Holland and 

 France ; it is found in Spain, at Genoa, and in Italy. The 

 Zoological Society have received specimens sent by Keith 

 Abbott, Esq. from Trebizond, and the Russian Naturalists 

 found it in the vicinity of the Caspian Sea. 



In the adult bird in summer the bill is greenish-grey at the 

 base, towards the point yellow ; iiides dark brown, edges of 

 the eye-lids red ; the whole head and neck pure white ; the 



