468 



LA RIDE. 



NATATORES. 



LARIDjE. 



THE HERRING GULL. 



Lams fit scus, Herring Gull, 



Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 181. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 229. 



Fi.EM. Brit. An. p. 140. 

 „ ,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 504. 



,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 276. 



,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 



„ Goeland a manteau bleu, Temm. Man. d'Ornilh. vol. ii. p. 764. 



argentatus 



Colonel Montagu, misled by others, misquoted and mis- 

 placed the systematic names of the Lesser Black-backed Gull 

 and the Herring Gull, the latter being the true Larus ar- 

 gentatus. On the southern parts of our coast this is a com- 

 mon species, remaining all the year, and breeding in the 



