504 NATATORES. LARUS. GuLL. 
feet as in the former. ‘This appears to be a bird that 
has undergone two general autumnal moultings. 
Adult. The mature plumage resembles that of the Glaucous Gull ; 
the head, neck, tail, and under parts being of a pure 
white. Mantle and wing-coverts pale pearl-grey. Quills 
with their shafts and tips pure white, passing Into pale 
pearl-grey towards the base. In winter the head and 
neck become streaked with grey. 
HERRING GULL. 
Larus ARGENTATUS, Brunn. 
PLATES XCVI. ann XCVI*. 
Larus argentatus, Brunn. Orn. Boreal. No. 149.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 600. sp. 
eB ion Br. Anim. 1. 140. No. 227.—Shaw’s Zool. 13. 148, but not all 
the synonyms, some of them belonging to the Iceland Gull. 
Larus glaucus, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. Ist ed. 493. 
Larus marinus, var. B. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 814. is 6. 
Le Goéland 4 Manteau gris et blanc, Buff: oe . 421. 
Goeland a Manteau Bleu, Temm. Man. (Orn. 2 7164. 
Weissgraue Meve, Meyer, 'Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 47 1s 
Herring Gull, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 535. No. 246. pl. 88, but not the syno- 
nyims. ; Mont. Orn. Dict. and Sup. but not the synonyms, which belong 
to the Lesser Black-backed Gull.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1626, pt. 207. 
—Rennie’s Mont. Orn. Dict. but not the synonyms.—Flem. Br. Anim. 
1. 140. No. 22 
Silvery Gull, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 553. 6.—Lath. Syn. 6. 375. 
Wagel Gull, Br. Zool. 2. 536. No. 247. A. pl. 88.—Will. (Angl.) 349. 
t. 66%. 
Axtuoucu the Herring Gull is an indigenous, and, upon 
many parts of our coast, a common species, its history has 
been involved in much confusion, by Pennant, Montacu, 
and others, having mistaken for it (and quoted as a syno- 
nym) the Larus fuscus of Lixnzus, which, from the specific 
character of “ pedibus flavis,” clearly refers to the Lesser 
* This name is also applied to the young of the Greater and Lesser 
Black-backed Gulls; all of them bearing a near resemblance to each other 
in the immature plumage. 
