LARUS TRIDACTYLUS. 



(The Kittiwake Gull.) 



By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. 



(Plate CXI.) 



The lithograph is taken from a sketch made off Kingstown Harbour, Ireland, 

 in 1850. 



On the south coast round Brighton we get fewer Kittiwakes than other 

 Gulls ; and I find them difficult to keep in the gullery here. One has con- 

 trived, however, to hold its own for some years, and waddles about on its 

 short legs among the more graceful Black -headed and common Gulls. 



When once the feeding-ofF is done (a dangerous time — just after their 

 arrival), we rarely lose an individual. 



Matrimonial differences, in spite of all precautions, sometimes cost a 

 life in the spring ; but our birds are very healthy, and we have some aged 

 ones among them. 



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