K1TTIWAKE GULL. 563 



dactyluS) was only the young state of that which had been 

 previously called the Kittiwake, Larus rissa ; but this is 

 a point satisfactorily ascertained now. The figure in our 

 illustration with the dark coloured markings on the neck 

 and wings, is taken from a young bird of the year; the 

 other figure is from an adult bird killed at the Isle of 

 Wight, early in the month of June. 



Colonel Montagu was certainly mistaken in considering 

 the Kittiwake a rare bird on our southern coast. This 

 Gull is decidedly a rock-breeder, and very common in the 

 breeding-season on all the rocky parts of the coast of 

 Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and part of Cornwall. 

 I have seen many in one day, in the first week in June, 

 between the Needle Rocks and Freshwater Gate in the 

 Isle of Wight. Mr. Thompson mentions that it is only 

 a summer-visiter to Ireland, and it is known to migrate 

 in autumn from the coasts of Durham, Northumber- 

 land, Scotland, from the Scotch Islands, and from all 

 the numerous places still further north, to which 

 it resorts for the breeding-season ; but Dr. Edward 

 Moore mentions having killed the young bird in Devon- 

 shire in November. I am confident that I have seen 

 this species in winter in Dorsetshire and Hampshire ; and 

 M. Vieillot says it is stationary on the coast of France. 

 That many go far south in winter the localities to be here- 

 after quoted will prove. 



The young bird, while bearing on its plumage the dark- 

 coloured markings, has been called the Tarrock ; the adult 

 bird is the Kittiwake, and the name has reference to the 

 cry of this Gull, which, when disturbed at its breeding- 

 station, utters three notes in quick succession, which closely 

 resemble in sound the word in question. A writer in the 

 Field Naturalists" Magazine, in his Notes from the Isle of 



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