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feet as in the former. This appears to be a bird that 

 has undergone two general autumnal moultings. 

 Adult. The mature plumage resembles that of the Glaucous Gull ; 

 the head, neck, tail, and under parts being of a pure 

 white. Mantle and wing-coverts pale pearl-grey. Quills 

 with their shafts and tips pure white, passing into pale 

 pearl-grey towards the base. In winter the head and 

 neck become streaked with grey. 



HERRING GULL. 



LARUS ARGENTATUS, Brunn. 

 PLATES XCVI. AXD XCVI ". 



Larus argentatus, Brunn. Orn. Boreal. No. 149 GmeL Syst. 1. 600. sp. 



18 Flem. Br. A mm. 1. 140. No. 227 Shaw's Zool. 13. 148, but not all 



the synonyms, some of them belonging to the Iceland Gull. 



Larus glaucus, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 1st ed. 493. 



Larus marinus, var. B. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 814. sp. 6. 



Le Goeland a Manteau gris et blanc, Bvff. Ois, 8. 421. 



Goeland a Manteau Bleu, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. 764. 



Weissgraue Meve, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 471. 



Herring Gull, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 535. No. 246. pi. 80, but not the syno- 

 nyms. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Sup. but not the synonyms, which belong 

 to the Lesser Black-backed Gull. Bewick^ Br. Birds, ed. 1826, pt. 207. 

 Rennie's Mont. Orn. Diet, but not the synonyms. Flem. Br. Anim. 

 1. 140. No. 227. 



Silvery Gull, Penn. Arct. ZooL 2. 533. 6 Lath. Svn. 6. 375. 



Wagel Gull, Br. Zool. 2. 536. No. 247. A. pi. 88 Will. (Angl.) 349. 



t. 66 . 



ALTHOUGH the Herring Gull is an indigenous, and, upon 

 many parts of our coast, a common species, its history has 

 been involved in much confusion, by PENNANT, MONTAGU, 

 and others, having mistaken for it (and quoted as a syno- 

 nym) the Larus fuscus of LINNAEUS, which, from the specific 

 character of " pedibus flams? clearly refers to the Lesser 



This name is also applied to the young of the Greater and 

 Black-backed Gulls ; all of them bearing a near resemblance to each other 

 in the immature plumage. 



