562 

 NATATORES. 



LARID^. 



THE LITTLE GULL. 



Larus minutus. 



Larus minutus, Little Gull, 



Chroicocephalus 

 Xema 



Larus 



MONTAGU, Supp. Ornith. Diet. 

 BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 246. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 142. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 484. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 271. 



EYTON, Rarer Brit. Birds, p. 61. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Mouette pygmee, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 787. 



THIS interesting little Gull, the smallest I believe of 

 its genus, was first described and figured as a British bird 

 by Colonel Montagu, in the Appendix to the Supplement 



