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and lays two or three eggs of a dark olive-brown, spotted 

 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 Sussex, and from thence to 

 Norfolk and Lincolnshire. At St. AbVs 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 Sutherland- 

 shire, the same species, Mr. Selby observes, has several 

 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 

 without 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. Hew- 

 itson, who states that two thousand eggs were gathered 

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

 naeus, 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 Dr. Richardson in Arctic America. 



This species is common on the shores of Holland and 

 France ; it is found in Spain, at Genoa, and in Italy. 



