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NATATORES. 



LARID^l. 



LAEID^E. 



BONAPARTIAN GULL. 



Larus Bonapartii. 



Larus Bonapartii, Bonapartian Gull, THOMPSON, Birds of Ireland, vol. iii. 



p. 317. 

 EICH. and SWAINS, Faun. Bor. Amer. 



Birds, p. 425, pi. 72. 

 Bonaparte's AUD. Birds of Amer. vol. vii. p. 131, 



pi. 442. 

 Xema BONAP. Cons. Syst. Ornith. p. 201- 



THIS species was first distinctly characterised in the 

 Fauna Boreali- Americana by Richardson and Swainson in 

 1831. It is there stated that this handsome small Gull is 

 common in all parts of the fur-countries, where it associ- 

 ates with the Terns, and is distinguished by its peculiar 

 shrill and plaintive cry. It has since been received from 

 Greenland. 



Mr. Thompson, in his Birds of Ireland, mentions that 

 a specimen of this beautiful little Gull, the first of the 

 species known to have visited Europe, was killed at the 



