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LARID^E. 



NA TA TORES. 



LARIDM. 



THE HERRING GULL. 



Larus argentatus. 



Larus fuscus, Herring Gull, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 181. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



argentatus, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 229. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 140. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 504. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 276. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 



Goeland a manteau bleu, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 764. 



COLONEL MONTAGU, misled by others, misquoted and mis- 

 placed the systematic names of the Lesser Black-backed 

 Gull and the Herring Gull, the latter being the true Larus 

 . On the southern parts of our coast this is a 



