LARlDiE. 6lO 



Lams leucopterus from the size of the Common ' Mew ' up to that of a 

 small Glaucous (iull " (Dresser, ' Eirds of Europe,' vol. viii, p. 440). 



At Plymouth one was killed by tbe Rev. E. A. Julian on the Laira, Jan. 30th, I80G, 

 and one occurred in the Sound, Nov. 2()th, 1861 ; a bird of tlie year in December 181)2 

 (J. J. R., Zuol. 18153, p. 8448) ; one at Membury, April 28th, 1806 ; one Jan. 25th, 1867 ; 

 one Dee. 6th, 1869 ; one Feb. 4th, 1872 ; an adult Nor. 27t)i, 1873 ; one nearly adult 

 Dec. 1st, 1877; one May 14lh, 1878; one Jan. 25th, 1883, after a very strong wind 

 from 8.S.E. (J. G., MS. Notes; Zool. 1855, p. 4705; 1862, p. 7848; 1870, pr2U27; 

 1872, p. 3012; 1874, p. 3826; 1877, p. 132; 1878, p. 419; 1883, p. 166; and 

 ' Naturahst,' 1855, p. 144 ; C. S., Zool. 1882, p. 71). 



Immature specimens occurred in Torbay in Oct. 1844 (W. S. H., Zool. 1845, p. 879) ; 

 in 1851; March 23rd, 1868, nearly adult (J. H. G.) ; and in the autumn of 1871 

 (Torquay Museum). 



On the Cornish coast the Iceland Gull has also occurred occasionally. 

 Df. EiiUmore reports two obtained in Falmouth Harbour — one shot from 

 the Xorth Quay on April 24th, 1863, the other on Jan. 6th, 1864, — and 

 mentions a third obtained in the summer of 1868. The first two were 

 both in immature plumage, in which state the majority of those obtained 

 in the south occur. Mr. E. H. liodd records an immature Iceland Gull 

 shot on the Scilly Isles in the summer of 1852, another from Mount's Bay, 

 also in immature plumage, in April 1872, and states that a number of 

 these Gulls, all apparently young birds, appeared on the coast of Cornwall 

 in January and Eebruary 1873, and were especially numerous in Lamorna 

 Cove, about three miles from Penzance. 



In Somerset the Iceland Gull has been procured several times in the 

 winter at Weston-super-Mare, whence Mr. Cecil Smith received a very fine 

 example in immature plumage, which we examined in the flesh ; this 

 bird was obtained on Dec. 28th, 1870. He has also recorded in. the 

 'Zoologist' (1882, p. 71) au Iceland Gull which occurred many miles 

 inland at Somerton on Dec. 12th, 1881, which was made into a fire-screen ! 

 It is a little singular that Mr. Mansel-Pleydell can mention uo instance of 

 tliis Gull from the Dorsetshire harbours. 



The Iceland Gull occurs sometimes very abundantly in the winter off 

 the coast of Scotland, and breeds numerously in Greenland. 



Herring-Gull. Lams argentatus, Gm. 



[Ladram Gull (on the Exc) ; AVagel (young).] 



llesident. Breeds in con.siderable numbers on the cliffs along the south 

 coast from Sidinouth to riymouth. One of these breeding-places is at 

 Ladram Bay (between Sidniouth and Budleigh Salterton); another at 

 Berry Head ; and another at Wcmbur}', at the mouth of the river Yealm, 

 near Plymouth. 



On the north coast the great breeding-stations arc Baggy Point and 

 Lundy Island. Mr. Gatcorabe says that this species lays from April to the 

 end of July at "Wembury, and that the first young birds are seen in 

 August iu the Sound (Zool. 1877, p. 280; 1878, p. 430, &c.). We saw 



