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HERRING GULL. 
SILVEBY GULL. 
Bewick. Fleming. Gould. 
Jenyns. Sf.lby. 
Pennant. Montagu. 
Tkmminck. 
“ fuscus, 
“ glaucus , 
Larus —A ravenous sea-bird. Argentatus. Argentum— Silver. 
This bird has an extensive European range, occurring in 
Iceland, the Ferroe Isles, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, 
Holland, France, Italy, and Turkey. It belongs also to Africa, 
and is seen at Madeira; so too in Asia, in Asia Minor and 
along the shores of the Black Sea; and is also an American 
species, observed in Greenland and at Melville Island, Mexico, 
and thence to Labrador, and on Whitehead Island, in the 
Bay of Fundy, also about New York and Philadelphia. 
The Herring Gull is common on our coasts, and remains 
throughout the year. 
The present species breeds abundantly at Flamborough Head, 
in Yorkshire, the well-known promontory on which a light¬ 
house has for ages been placed, from whence its name, 
originally, no doubt, Flameborough; also on the Fern Islands, 
off the Northumbrian coast; North Berwick Harbour, in Scot¬ 
land, and the Solway Frith; Sumburgh Head, in Shetland; 
and on an island near St. David’s Head, in Wales. 
In Yorkshire, it is a common species on the coast, and, 
inland, specimens have been procured at Hebden Bridge and 
Barnsley, and at Sheffield, young birds. In Suffolk, they are 
not uncommon; and in Norfolk, about Yarmouth and along 
the coast. In Hampshire, they are exceedingly common about 
Lymington; also in Dorsetshire and Devonshire, and are not 
uncommon in Cornwall, about Falmouth and Penryn River. 
