402 













Culmen. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Tarsus 







inches. 



inches. 



inches. 



inches 



L. argentatus . . . . 6 



TJdde valla, Sweden. 



3-0 



16-8 



69 



2-4 



33 



. 





d 



St. Petersburg. 



33 



17-9 



69 



2-65 



33 







. d 



Orkneys. 



2-8 



169 



6-8 



2-4 



33 



. 





. 2 



do.' 



2-8 



15-8 



66 



2-35 



33 



. 





. 2 



Pagham, Sussex. 



2-75 



16-0 



6-4 



2-4 



13 







. d 



Labrador. 



3-2 



160 



7-0 



2-5 



33 







. d 



Rupert House, Hudson's Bay. 



3-4 



17-5 



6-8 



2-7 



33 



. 





d 



Fort Macon, N. Carolina. 



33 



17-8 



72 



2-8 



L. 1'iucophceus 



. 





6 



Schinades, near Missolonghi. 



3-4 



17-4 



7-0 



25 



33 







6 



do. 



3-6 



17-8 



7-1 



2-5 



33 



. 





2 



do. 



305 



166 



6-6 



25 



3! 







2 



do. 



3-1 



17-3 



6-8 



2-5 



33 







— 



Capri. 



29 



16-8 



6-6 



25 



JJ 







— 



Genoa. 



2-8 



16-6 



65 



2-5 



33 







d 



Valencia, Spain. 



3-2 



18-2 



71 



2-7 



33 



. 





d 



Algiers. 



31 



18-5 



7'7 



2-85 



33 







d 



Gwador, Baluchistan. 



3-0 



16o 



6-5 



2-4 



33 







d 



do. 



3-2 



17-2 



6-8 



2-7 



33 « 







2 



do. 



3-0 



17-0 



67 



2-5 



L. occidentalis 







2 



Pacific beach, California. 



31 



162 



6-2 



• 2-6 



33 



. 





juv. 



do. 



2-8 



def. 



5-8 



2-5 



33 



. 





— 



Amoy, China. 



31 



172 



6-8 



2-5 



33 



. 





— 



do. 



2-8 



16-6 



6-5 



2-5 



33 







juv. 



do. 



30 



17-1 



6-5 



2-5 



The Common Herring-Gull is found throughout Northern and Central Europe, eastward into 

 Russia, and, during the winter season, throughout Southern Europe. It is also met with in 

 North-eastern America. In Great Britain it is very widely distributed, being found on most 

 parts of the coast during the breeding-season wherever it can meet with suitable places for the 

 purposes of nidification. It does not, however, appear to breed on the Somersetshire coast ; for 

 Mr. Cecil Smith writes to me as follows: — "I have never been able to find that either this bird 

 or the Common Gull breeds in any part of our Somersetshire coast ; a little further down the 

 Channel, on the Devonshire coast, at Lundy Island, and across on the Welsh side about Tenby 

 and the Stack Rocks they do in great numbers. The western part of our coast, from Minehead 

 to Culbone, is so thickly wooded down to the sea that there is no suitable place for Gulls to 

 breed in. There are a few places further east on our coast, as Bream Down, near Weston- 

 super-Mare, that appear more suitable ; but I visited these places both this year and last, and 

 took some pains to find out what birds were breeding there, and I found no Gulls at all in adult 

 plumage ; all the birds I saw were young ones in their second or third year, at which time I do 

 not believe they are allowed to approach the breeding-stations : at least at all the great breeding- 

 stations I have visited this is so. In Guernsey this appears very conspicuously, as young Herring- 

 Gulls two or three years old may be seen about the harbour, but never at the breeding-stations 

 in that island, or in the opposite island of Sark, though only seven miles off. 



