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KITTIWAKE. 



R ; ssa, MONTAGU. FLEMING. SET/RY. 



GOULD. 



tridactylus, PENNANT. BEWICK. JKNYJSS. 



" TEMMINCK. 



Larus A ravenous sea-bird. Rissa . 



THE Kittivvake is plentiful in many parts of Europe, as 

 Norway, Sweden, the Ferroe Islands, Iceland, Nova Zembla, 

 and Spitzbergen, in the north, and on the French coast: in 

 Italy it has also occurred. It is common in Greenland, and 

 on the continent of America, from the United States to Labrador, 

 and the farthest north, inconceivable numbers congregating, 

 Captain J. Ross, R.N., observed, in suitable places. In Africa, 

 specimens have been procured at Tripoli, and on the west 

 oast; and in Asia, near the Caspian Sea, and on to 

 Kamtschatka in the north. 



They breed in immense numbers on the northern coasts of 

 Scotland, the Bass Rock and that of Glass, St. Abb's Head, 

 in Berwickshire, Fowls-Heugh, near Stonehaven and Montrose, 

 Aberdeenshire, Troup Head, the Isle of May, in the Frith 

 of Forth, and other places; so too in the Shetland Islands. 

 Also in Yorkshire on the cliffs about Flamborough, and so 

 formerly at Scarborough and the Fern Islands off the coast 

 of Northumberland. In Hampshire, at the Isle of Wight; 

 and in Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Cornwall. 



The Kittiwake is common along the Yorkshire coast, and 

 some have been seen about Sheffield, Huddersfield, and York. 

 In Cornwall it is* not uncommon about Falmouth, Swanpool, 

 Gwyllyn Vase, and other places; as too in Norfolk, about 

 Yarmouth, and along the coast. One, of which William 

 Brooks Gates, Esq. has informed me, was killed at Pattishall, 

 in Northamptonshire, during the severe frost in January, 1854; 



