LAUGHING GULL. 



N ATA TORES. 



557 

 LARIDJE. 



THE LAUGHING GULL. 



Larus atricilla. 



Larus atritiUa, laughing Gull, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 1.03. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 142. 



,. JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 273. 



Xema Black-winged GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xxii. 

 Larus Mouttte a capuchon plomb, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 779. 



and vol. iv. p. 483. 



THIS species, called the Laughing Gull by Catesby in his 

 natural history of Carolina, was made known as a visiter 

 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 





