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LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. 



YELLOW-LEGGED GULL. 



Larus argentatus, MONTAGU. 



" fuscus, BEWICK. FLEMING. SELBY. 



" " JENYNS. GOULD. TEMMINCK. 



Larus A ravenous sea-bird. Argentatus. Argentum Silver. 



THE Gull thus called is, in Europe, common in Norway, 

 and generally on the coasts of the Baltic Sea, and is found 

 in Holland, Belgium, France, Dalmatia, and throughout Italy. 

 In Africa, it occurs in Egypt, and thence to Barbary, and 

 so on to the Cape of Good Hope; and in Asia, in Syria, 

 Asia Minor, and Arabia, along the shore of the Red Sea; 

 also in North America, coming ^outh to Carolina. 



This species breeds on Romsey Island, in Pembrokeshire, 

 Wales; the Fern Islands, off the coast of .Northumberland; 

 as also inland on the moors, by the Cumberland Border, and 

 is likewise known along the shores of Sussex, Hants, Suffolk, 

 Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall, in which last-named the species 

 is not uncommon about Falmouth. Penryn River, Swanpool, 

 Gwyllyn Vase, and the coast generally. 



In Scotland, they also build on islands in Loch Awe, Loch 

 Shin, Loch Laigal, and others in Sutherlandshire. and at the 

 Sol way Frith; also in the Hebrides. 



Individuals have occurred in Yorkshire, at Leeds and Sheffield, 

 young birds; on the coast it is not uncommon. In Norfolk, 

 two were shot in Yarmouth Roads, October 7th., 1827: the}' 

 occur along the coast, but not in large numbers. A solitary 

 individual has sometimes been seen in Oxfordshire, near Witney, 

 and the species occurs not very unfrequently in different parts 

 of the county. Some visit Northamptonshire nearly every 

 winter. 



