COMMON GULL. 591 



with darker brown and black ; the length two inches and 

 a quarter, by one inch and a half in breadth. 



Mr. Thompson says the Common Gull remains all the 

 year in Ireland ; it is found also all round the south and 

 east coast, from Wales to Dorsetshire and Sussex, and from 

 thence to Norfolk and Lincolnshire. At St. Abb's Head, 

 a bold and rocky headland of Berwickshire, these birds, 

 Mr. Selby says, are very numerous during the breeding- 

 season, and occupy the whole face of the cliff. In Suther- 

 landshire, the same species, Mr. Selby observes, has seve- 

 ral breeding-stations ; viz. upon Loch Shin, Loch Laighal, 

 and various smaller lochs. Mr. J. Macgillivray noticed the 

 Common Gull on several islets of the Outer Hebrides; 

 there it was found occasionally breeding in the interior. 

 "In Orkney and Shetland, " Mr. Dunn says, " I have found 

 a few pairs incubating in company with the Herring Gull, 

 and occasionally a solitary pair breeding in the cliffs with- 

 out any associates ; they may be found sometimes on the 

 small islands in the lakes." 



Professor Nilsson considers this bird one of the Common 

 Gulls in Sweden ; it was seen in Norway by Mr. Hewit- 

 son, who states that two thousand eggs were gathered 

 for the use of the inhabitants from one island only. Lin- 

 neus, in his Tour in Lapland, mentions having seen hun- 

 dreds of this Gull in the corn-fields of Westbothland, 

 and one also on the Lapland Alps. It is found at the 

 Faroe Islands ; and Mr. Proctor observed that it was 

 plentiful at Iceland. It is included in a list of birds found 

 by naturalists at Nova Zembla, and was observed by Sir 

 John Richardson in Arctic America. 



This species is common on the shores of Holland and 

 France ; it is found in Spain, about Cadiz harbour, at 

 Genoa, and in Italy. The Zoological Society have re- 

 ceived specimens sent by Keith Abbott, Esq., from Trebi- 



