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HERRING GULi,. 



SILVERY GULL. 



Larus argentatus, BEWICK. FLEMING. GOULD. 



JENYNS. SF.LBY. 



' fuscus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" glaucus, TEMMINCK. 



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



THIS bird has an extensive European range, occurring in 

 Iceland, the Ferroe Isles, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, 

 Holland, France, Italy, and Turkey. It belongs also to Africa, 

 and is seen at Madeira; so too in Asia, in Asia Minor and 

 along the shores of the Black Sea; and is also an American 

 species, observed in Greenland and at Melville Island, Mexico, 

 and thence to Labrador, and on Whitehead Island, in the 

 Bay of Fundy, also about New York and Philadelphia. 



The Herring Gull is common on our coasts, and remains 

 throughout the year. 



The present species breeds abundantly at Flamborough Head, 

 in Yorkshire, the well-known promontory on which a light- 

 house has for ages been placed, from whence its name, 

 originally, no doubt, Flameborough ; also on the Fern Islands, 

 off the Northumbrian coast; North Berwick Harbour, in Scot- 

 land, and the Solway Frith; Sumburgh Head, in Shetland; 

 and on an island near St. David's Head, in Wales. 



In Yorkshire, it is a common species on the coast, and, 

 inland, specimens have been procured at Hebden Bridge and 

 Barnsley, and at Sheffield, young birds. In Suffolk, they are 

 not uncommon; and in Norfolk, about Yarmouth and along 

 the coast. In Hampshire, they are exceedingly common about 

 Lymington; also in Dorsetshire and Devonshire, and are not 

 uncommon in Cornwall, about Falmouth and Penryn River. 



