LITTLE GULL. 



NATATORES. 



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LARIDJK. 



THE LITTLE GULL. 

 Larus minutus. 



TMTUS minutus, Little Gull, MONTAGU, Supp. Ornith. Diet. 



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



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 142. 



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



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 271. 



Chroicoccphalus EYTON, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 61. 



Xema GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xi. 



Larus Mouette pygmte, 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 of 



