LITTLE GULL. 



G A VI . 



589 



LARIDrf. 



LARUS MINUTUS, Pallas*. 



THE LITTLE GULL. 



Larus minutus. 



THIS interesting little PaJsearctic Gall, the smallest of its 

 genus, was first described and figured as a British bird by 

 Colonel Montagu, in the Appendix to the Supplement of his 

 Ornithological Dictionary, from a young bird in the plumage 

 of the first year that was shot on the Thames near Chelsea, 

 and then in the possession of Mr. Plasted of that place, at 

 the sale of whose collection it passed into the possession of 

 Mr. Leadbeater. Mr. Bullock's celebrated collection con- 



* Reisc Russische Reichs, iii. p. 702, App. no. 35 (1776). 



