CtAss 11. BLACK HEADED GULL. 



i89 



Sdift • 



Larus ridibundus. L. albidus 



capita nigricante, rostro pe- 



dibusque rubris. Lath. Ind. 



orw. 811. id. Syn. vi. 380. 



id. Sup. i. 268. 

 Cepphus Turneri. Gesner av. 



249. 

 Larus cinereus tertius. Aldr. 



av. iii. 35. 

 Pewit, or Black Cap, Sea 



Crow, Mire Crow. JVil. 



orn, 347. 

 Raii Syn. av. 128. itin. 217. 

 Pewit. Plotfs hist. Staff. 23 1 . 



Puit. Fuller s Brit. Worthies. 



318. 

 La Mouette rieuse a pattes 



rouges. Brisson av. vi. I97, 



Hist, d'ois. viii. 433. PL 



Enl. 970. 

 Gabbiano cinerizio col rostro, 



e colli piedi rossi. Zinan. 



115. 

 Larus ridibundus. Gm. Lin. 



601. 

 Br. Zool. 143. Tal. L. 5, 



Arct. Zool. ii. 254. 



8. Black 

 Headeu, 



jL HESE birds breed in vast numbers in the 

 islands of certain pools in the county of Staf- 

 ford; and, as Dr. Fuller tells us, in another on 

 the Essex shores ; also in the fens of Lincoln- 

 shire. They are migratory, resort there in 

 the spring, and after the breeding season dis- 

 perse to the sea coasts : they make their nest 

 on the ground, with rushes, dead grass, and the 

 like, and lay three eggs of a dirty olive color, 

 marked with black. The young were formerly 

 highly esteemed, and numbers were annually 

 taken and fattened for the table. Plott gives a 

 marvellous account of their attachment to the 

 lord of the soil they inhabit ; insomuch, that on 



