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LITTLE GULL. 



Larus minntits, 

 " atrici/loides, 

 



Chroiocephalus minutus, 

 Xema minutus, 



MONTAGU. BFWICK. 

 GMELTN. FLEMING. SFT.BV. 

 JENYNS. LATHAM. TEMMINCK. 

 EYTON. 

 GOULI>. 



Larus . 



Minutus Minute small. 



THIS diminutive and elegant species occurs in Europe in 

 Russia, Finland, and Denmark, and individual specimens have 

 been obtained in Holland, Hungary, Italy, Germany, and 

 Switzerland. In Asia in Tartary and Siberia, and about the 

 Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. In America a young bird 

 appears to have been seen. 



In Yorkshire, two were seen about the 20th. of October, 

 1849, and one of them shot, at Auburn House, near Burlington 

 Quay, by Mr. Jones, of the latter place; several others near 

 there also at different times; another near Redcar, January 

 16th., 1850; one at Scarborough by Mr. Patrick Havvkridge, 

 in November, 1836; two were seen on Skipworth Common, 

 September 1st., 1856. A specimen of the Little Gull was 

 shot at Yarmouth, in Norfolk, on May 30th., 1849; others 

 have occurred, though rarely, most years; one was killed in 

 the middle of November, 1843, within the city of Norwich. 

 In Suffolk, one in 1832. In Northumberland, one at the 

 mouth of the Tyne, in September, 1835. One, in adult 

 plumage, near Lewes, Sussex, the 29th. of November, 1850. 

 In Somersetshire one near Weston-super-Mare, January 7th., 

 1851; it also was a mature specimen. In Derbyshire, one, 

 a young bird of the year, in the parish of King's Newton, 

 the 22nd. of January, 1851, by H. Orton, Esq.; when first 

 seen, it was swimming in the Trent, near Weston Cliff. One 

 in Devonshire, near Exeter, the last day of January, 1851. 



