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BLACK-HEADED GULL. 
BROWN-HEADED GULL. BROWN GULL. LAUGHING GULL. 
RED-LEGGED GULL. PEEWIT GULL. 
SEA CROW. BLACK-CAP. HOODED MEW. PICKMIRE. 
Lams ridibundus, 
“ proceliosus, 
•* erythropus, 
“ cinerarias, 
Xema ridibundus, 
Pennant. Montagu. Fleming. 
Bechstein. Selby. Jenyns. Bewick. 
Montagu. Gmelin. 
Bewick. 
Gould. 
Larus —.? Ridibundus. Rideo — To laugh ; in allusion to one of 
the vernacular names of the bird. 
This graceful and lively bird is well known in many parts 
of the world. In Europe, it is a native of Russia, Sweden, 
Holland, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. In Asia, 
of Siberia, Syria, Armenia, and Arabia. In America, of 
Greenland and the shores of Baffin’s Bay and Davis Straits. 
In Africa, it is found in Egypt and along the northern 
shores. 
Many things, and many words expressive or descriptive of 
things, seem strange when first observed or first heard, but 
use soon reconciles the eye, the ear, or the mind to them, 
and they quickly lose their novelty, and are then no longer 
thought of or remarked. In ‘Barring Out’ the name of Archers, 
the partizans of Archer, seems almost a matter of course; the 
Greybeards, the followers of De Grey, soon appear equally 
as it were of necessity so designated; but Fisher’s ‘Why not! 
I and my nine Fishermen’ being later in the field, jars upon 
the ear at first, and seems for a time to want the ‘prestige’ 
which the others have. Thus a Rookery is to all an accustomed 
word, but to some a Gullery is not. The reason just touched 
upon is, however, the only one why both are not ‘Familiar 
