294 BRITISH BIRDS' EGGS. 



green, blotched with grey and brown. "Audubon found 

 the Herring Gull distributed in America, from the Gulf of 

 Mexico to Labrador, and describes the manners of a colony 

 which he found on "Whitehead Island, in the Bay of Fundy. 

 The Gulls here were breeding on the pine-trees, some forty 

 feet from the ground ; others with the nest only seven or 

 eight, and placed close to the bole of the tree; others, again 

 (what he considered to be the younger birds), made the nest 

 on the ground. Mr. Prankland recollected when the birds 

 commenced to select the trees, for they all previously built 

 on the ground; and considered that it was an instinctive 

 care that had induced them to breed out of reach, from the 

 nests on the ground being constantly robbed" ( ( Naturalists' 

 Library/ vol. iv. p. 305). 



GLAUCOUS GULL. Lams glaucus. This is a northern 

 species visiting our shores in winter. It breeds in high 

 northern latitudes, and is a common species in Greenland, 

 Baffin's Bay, and the Polar Seas. It breeds either upon 

 the projecting ledges of rocks, or upon the shingle of the 

 beach above high- water mark. The egg of this species 

 both in size and colour nearly resembles that of the Great 

 Black-backed Gull. This Gull is extremely voracious, 

 and one specimen which was shot disgorged a Little Auk, 



