CO 
LITTLE 
GULL. 
Lams minutus , 
Montagu. Bewick. 
“ atrici/loides, 
Gmelin. Fleming. Sflby. 
“ “ 
Jenyns. Latham. Temminck. 
Chroiocephalus minutus , 
Eyton. 
Xema minutus , 
Gould. 
Larus —.? 
Minutus — M i n ute—small. 
This diminutive and elegant species occurs in Europe in 
Russia, Finland, and Denmark, and individual specimens have 
been obtained in Holland, Hungary, Italy, G-ermany, and 
Switzerland. In Asia—in Tartary and Siberia, and about the 
Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. In America a young bird 
appears to have been seen. 
In Yorkshire, two were seen about the 20th. of October, 
1849, and one of them shot, at Auburn House, near Burlington 
Quay, by Mr. Jones, of the latter place; several others near 
there also at different times; another near Redcar, January 
16th., 1850; one at Scarborough by Mr. Patrick Hawkridge, 
in November, 1836; two were seen on Skip worth Common, 
September 1st., 1856. A specimen of the Little Gull was 
shot at Yarmouth, in Norfolk, on May 30th., 1849; others 
have occurred, though rarely, most years; one was killed in 
the middle of November, 1843, within the city of Norwich. 
In Suffolk, one in 1832. In Northumberland, one at the 
mouth of the Tyne, in September, 1835. One, in adult 
plumage, near Lewes, Sussex, the 29th. of November, 1850. 
In Somersetshire one near Weston-super-Mare, January 7th., 
1851; it also was a mature specimen. In Derbyshire, one, 
a young bird of the year, in the parish of King’s Newton, 
the 22nd. of January, 1851, by H. Orton, Esq.; when first 
seen, it was swimming in the Trent, near Weston Cliff. One 
in Devonshire, near Exeter, the last day of January, 1851. 
