470 LARID.E. 



Shetland, is bold and clamorous, giving loiul warnings when 

 danger approaches. It is found in Scandinavia, at the Faroe 

 Islands, in Iceland, and by our Arctic voyagers in Greenland 

 and Melville Island. Mr. Audubon inentions it as plentiful 

 in North America. 



This species is observed all the year on the coasts of Hol- 

 land and France ; both old and young are also observed at 

 Genoa in winter. Dr. Heineken includes it in his catalogue 

 of the Birds of Madeira ; and M. Savi in his Birds of Italy. 

 Mr. G. H. Strickland mentions, that Herring Gulls frequent 

 the Golden Horn at Constantinople, where they are so tame 

 that they may be easily struck with an oar. This species has 

 also been found in Asia Minor, and on the southern shores 

 of the Black Sea. 



The adult bird in summer has the bill yellow, the angle 

 of the under mandible red ; edges of the eyelids orange, the 

 irides straw yellow ; head and neck all round pure white ; 

 the back, and all the wing-coverts uniform delicate French 

 grey ; tertials tipped with white ; primaries mostly black, 

 but grey on the basal portion of the inner web ; the first 

 primary with a triangular patch of white at the end, the 

 second and third with smaller portions of white ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail-feathers pure white ; chin, throat, breast, 

 belly, and all the under surftice of the body and tail pure 

 white ; legs and feet flesh-colour. The whole length from 

 twenty-two inches to twenty-four and a half, depending upon 

 age and sex ; the wing from sixteen inches and a half to 

 seventeen and a quarter. In winter the adult birds have the 

 head streaked with dusky grey. Young birds resemble the 

 young of the Lesser Black-backed Gull, but the legs and 

 feet are more livid in colour. 



