LITTLE GULL. 



than in that specie?, and are uniform black, with their 

 base bluish : the leg's are of a black-purple. 



A native of America, and also of the eastern parts 

 of the vast Russian empire, and of the Austral islands ; 

 and, according to Montagu, of this country also ; he 

 having observed several of them feeding in a pool 

 near Winchester, one of which he shot ; and likewise 

 two others near Hastings, in Sussex. Its voice re- 

 sembles a coarse laugh. Is supposed to breed at 

 Hudson's Bay ; at least a bird similar to it is said to 

 make its nest in the pine trees ! and lays four ? lead- 

 coloured eggs. 



Wilson, or at least Ord, the coutinuator of his 

 admirable work, says, that this species builds in the 

 marshes, and lays three clay-coloured eggs, which are 

 marked with irregular spots of purple and clear brown. 



LITTLE GULL. 

 (Larus minutus.) 



La. alius, capite nigro, alis cinerei-s. remigibus apice albis, pe- 



dibus cocciueis. 

 White Gull with the head black, the wings ash-colour, the tips 



of the quills white, and the legs £ let. 

 Larus minutus. Gmd. S t. N . 1. 595. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



513. Frai t. Journ. App.p. 696. 

 Mouette pygmee. Temm. man. d'Orn. 2 Edit. ii. 7^7 ■ 

 Larus atricilloides. Gmcl. Syst. Xat. 1. 601. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



11. S13. 

 Little Gull. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 391. Mont. Orn. Diet. App. 



Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 140. 



