GREAT BLACK- BACKED GULL. 



NA TA TORES. 



591 

 LARID^E. 



THE GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL. 



Larus marinus. 



Larus marinus, Great Black-Lacked Gull, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 172. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 223. 



,, ncBviuSj Tlic. Wagel 225, young. 



marinus, Blacfcbacked Gull, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 140. 



Great SELBV, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 507. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 278. 



,, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xiii. 



G'odand a manteau noir, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 70'0. 



THE GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL, though seen through- 

 out the year on various parts of our coast, is not numerous 



