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LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. 
YELLOW-LEGGED GULL. 
Larus argentatus, 
“ fuscus , 
Montagu. 
Bewick. Fleming. Selby. 
Jenyns. Gould. Temminck. 
Larus — A ravenous sea-bird. 
Argentatus. Argentum —Silver. 
The Gull thus called is, in Europe, common in Norway, 
and generally on the coasts of the Baltic Sea, and is found 
in Holland, Belgium, France, Dalmatia, and throughout Italy. 
In Africa, it occurs in Egypt, and thence to Barbary, and 
so on to the Cape of Good Hope; and in Asia, in Syria, 
Asia Minor, and Arabia, along the shore of the Red Sea; 
also in North America, coming south to Carolina. 
This species breeds on Romsey Island, in Pembrokeshire, 
Wales; the Fern Islands, off the coast of Northumberland; 
as also inland on the moors, by the Cumberland Border, and 
is likewise known along the shores of Sussex, Hants, Suffolk, 
Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall, in which last-named the species 
is not uncommon about Falmouth. Penryn River, Swanpool, 
Gwyllyn Vase, and the coast generally. 
In Scotland, they also build on islands in Loch Awe, Loch 
Shin, Loch Laigal, and others in Sutherlandshire, and at the 
Solway Frith; also in the Hebrides. 
Individuals have occurred in Yorkshire, at Leeds and Sheffield, 
young birds; on the coast it is not uncommon. In Norfolk, 
two were shot in Yarmouth Roads, October 7th., 1827: the}” 
occur along the coast, but not in large numbers. A solitary 
individual has sometimes been seen in Oxfordshire, near Witney, 
and the species occurs not very unfrequently in different parts 
of the county. Some visit Northamptonshire nearly every 
winter. 
