ICELAND GULL. 235 
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. 
Larus Fuscus, Linnzus. 
There is no breeding station of the Lesser Black-backed 
Gull in Cheshire, but, like the Herring Gull, it is met 
with all the year round on the coast. Generally speak- 
ing, it is not so abundant as the Herring Gull, although 
Mr. R. Newstead says it is commoner than that species 
at Ince.1 The Lesser Black-backed Gull does not very 
often occur inland, but adult as well as immature birds 
have been shot in the water-meadows at Sale. 
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL. 
LARUS MARINUS, Linnzeus. 
The Great Black-backed Gull, although far less 
common than the two preceding species, is met with 
in autumn and winter round the coast of Cheshire. 
The bird does not often wander far from the sea, but 
at the end of October 1898 an adult was shot on the 
subsidence at Witton Brook, near Northwich, and was 
recorded in a Manchester newspaper as an ‘ Albatross.’ 
ICELAND GULL. 
LARUS LEUCOPTERUS, Faber. 
Rare at all times on the west coast of England, the 
Iceland Gull has only been obtained once in Cheshire. 
In the year 1897 we examined an immature bird in 
1 Dobie, op. cit. p. 344. 
