LARID#. 663 
THE LITTLE GULL. 
Larus MINUTUS, Pallas. 
This species, the smallest member of the genus, was introduced 
to the British list by Montagu, who described and figured a young 
bird shot near Chelsea prior to 1813. Subsequently specimens have 
frequently been obtained, while in 1866, and again in 1868, Little 
Gulls appeared on the coast of Yorkshire in numbers till then un- 
precedented ; though these were far exceeded along the entire east 
side of England during the winter of 1869, and again after the heavy 
easterly gales of February 1870, when the proportion of adults to 
young birds was unusually large. This Gull has also occurred along 
the Channel as far as Cornwall, but it seldom visits Wales and 
Lancashire, though more frequent of late years in the Solway 
district. Along the west of Scotland it has appeared at intervals 
as far northward as Skye and North Uist ; while on the east, as might 
be expected, the bird is more frequently met with, and has been 
