fearless, and had we been so disposed we might have 

 shot a good many Little Gulls from the deck of our 

 vessels at anchor in the harbours that I have mentioned. 



Doctor H. Guillemard obtained and sent to me two 

 specimens of this Gull obtained in Cyprus in February 

 1888, but 1 did not meet with it in that island, pro- 

 bably because it had departed for its nesting-quarters 

 before our arrival in April 1875. I could not discover 

 that the Little Gull remains to breed upon any part 

 of the Mediterranean shores or islands. Mr. W. H. 

 Hudleston, who has given us in the 'Ibis' a most 

 graphic account of his ornithological researches in the 

 Dobrudscha, including interesting details regarding this 

 species as oberved by him it that province, noticed a 

 rapid diminution of its numbers from the latter end of 

 April, and came to the conclusion that it does not breed 

 in that locality at all. This Gull has been found 

 nesting in large colonies on the lakes in the Ural, and 

 Mr. Dresser gives a very full account in his 'Birds of 

 Europe ' of its nesting in the vicinity of Lake Ladoga, 

 as communicated to him by Mr. W. Meves, of Stock- 

 holm. I gather from this account that in general habits, 

 the situation of its nests, number of eggs, and diet of 

 small fishes and insects, the present species differs but 

 little from Larus ridibundiis and some of the Marsh- 

 Terns. 



The Little Gull visits the Baltic and the North Sea, 

 and ranges across Siberia to the Lena, but, according to 

 the 4th ed. of ' Yarrell,' from which I quote these latter 

 localities, it has only been once recorded as occurring in 

 Northern India. 



