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NATATORES. 



LARIDJ1. 



LARIDJE. 



THE LAUGHING GULL. 



Lams atricilla. 



Larus atricilla, Laughing Gull, 



Xema 

 Larus 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 193. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 142. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 273. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe. 

 Mouette a capuchon TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 779, 

 plomb6, and vol. iv. p. 483. 



THIS species, called the Laughing Gull by Catesby in his 

 Natural History of Carolina, was made known as a visitor 

 to the British shores by Colonel Montagu, who, in his 

 Ornithological Dictionary, says, " In the month of August, 

 1774, we saw five of them together feeding in a pool in the 

 Shingley flats near Winchelsea ; two only were black on 



