618 



GA VI ;E. 



LARID^E. 



LARID^E. 





LARUS ARGENTATUS, Gmelin.* 

 THE HERRING GULL. 



Larus argentatus. 



THE HERRING GULL is a resident and generally distributed 

 species on the coasts of the British Islands ; and on the 

 lofty cliffs of the south coast, from Beachy Head to Cornwall, 

 it is more numerous in the breeding-season than any other 

 kind of Gull. It is very abundant at Lundy Island in the 

 Bristol Channel ; also on the coast of Wales, where there 

 is an especially large colony on the Stacks off Holyhead ; 

 it breeds on the cliffs of Cumberland, and, according to 

 Mr. A. Durnford (Zool. 1879, p. 339), on Foulshaw Moss, 

 near Arnside, in Westmoreland, in proximity to a far larger 



* Sjst, Nat. i. p. 600 (1788), ex Briinnich. 



