LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 



YELLOW-LEGGED GULL. 



PLATE CCXXVL FIGURE I. 

 Larusfuscus, .... LINNAEUS. GMELIN. 



THE present species builds in suitable places in the British 

 Islands, on bare and barren islands, parts of the sea- 

 coast and those of inland lakes. Steep and precipitous cliffs 

 are used, as well as low marshy moors and sandy places a little 

 way inland. 



The nest is a tolerable quantity of grass, with occasionally, 

 though rarely, some sea-weed, placed loosely together in any 

 slight hollow in the rock or the adjacent herbage, the latter 

 least frequently. 



The eggs, generally laid at the end of May, are usually 

 three in number. They are of very great variety of shade, 

 from pale bluish green, brown, olive green, olive brown, and 

 stone colour, to almost white, thickly spotted with grey, brown 

 of two shades, and brownish black. 



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