LARID^. 135 



turned out to be a Red-throated Diver. Old birds of 

 this species are seldom met with ; in the majority of 

 cases the birds obtained have been immature. An 

 Eton birdstuffer, named Drye, informed me that he 

 generally received a few of these Divers every year 

 from the vicinity of Eton, Surley, and Datchet. 



Family — Larid^e. 



Herring Gull {Larus argentattis). This Gull, 

 which is numerous on many parts of our coast, 

 occasionally strays inland during severe weather, and 

 may then be found upon the river. Mr. Morris states, 

 on the authority of Mr. Thomas Wilmot, that a 

 Herring Gull was captured between Maidenhead and 

 Windsor, on or about the 25th of January, 1855. In 

 the hard winter of 1866-67 several were observed 

 flying over the flooded fields between Surley and 

 Eton : and this species has occurred at other times, 

 but I am ignorant of the dates. 



%\t t\m^\t\ fi^Iitrs put oit iljcxr ^mitx rob 



#f purest foljite. Viit fofols flf l^xahiT, 



'^mwtis ljg llje txx\z\ season, trofob arounb 



%j\t luiunolrrincj: store, anb tiaim l^c little boon 



Mljklj Irobibente assigns i\vK\.! 



Thomson. 



