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NESTS AND E&GS OF 



The Siberian Gull is a rare or occasional visitor in Greenland, whereupon it 

 claims a place in the fauna of North America. It breeds in the extreme north of 

 Europe, notably on the shores and in the lagoons of the Petchora River in the north- 

 ern part of European Russia. The eggs are said not to differ from those of the 

 Herring Gull. 



51. HEBKINGr GULL. Larw argentatus (Brunn.) Geog. Dist.— Old World, 

 south to the Azores; Cumberland Sound; occasional on the eastern coast of the 

 United States. 



The European Herring Gull is known as an occasional visitor to the coast of 

 Eastern North America. On the Azores, a cluster of nine islands in the Atlantic, 

 eight hundred miles due west of Portugal, this Gull is very common, breeding on 



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51. Herbing Gulls (From Brehm). 



some of the islands in immense numbers. In Great Britain it is a familiar bira 

 everywhere. Mr. H. K. Swann, in The Birds of London* states that it is of not un- 

 common occurrence in winter on the eastern side, and frequently straying up the 

 Thames. It breeds in the islands on the coast of Scotland, especially the Hebrides, 

 Shetland, Orkney and the Faroe Islands; thence northward to Iceland. One of the 

 most common gulls along the coast of Norway, as far as North Cape, where they 

 breed by thousands. Its nesting habits and its eggs are the same as those of the 

 American bird, smithsonian-us. Eggs 2.91x1.98. 



51a. AMEBICAIiT HEB.KIN G GULL. Larus argentatus smithsonianus Couesi, 

 Geog. Dist. — North America generally. Breeds on the Atlantic coast from Maine 

 northward. 



* The Birds of London, by H. K. Swann. London: Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., Pater- 

 noster Square, 1893, pp. 118-119. 



