kittiwake. 
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NA TA TOUES. 
LARIDJE. 
PLATE CCCV. 
KITTIWAKE. 
LARUS RISSA. 
The Kittiwake is considered a summer visitant by some 
authors, and by others it has been said to remain throughout 
the year on the coasts of Great Britain. It has positively 
been ascertained, however, that this bird does not only breed 
on every rocky coast of the United Kingdom, but we have the 
most undoubted proofs of its being met with in England 
throughout the year. 
During the time that we were publishing our quarto 
edition of the present work, we obtained an adult bird in 
perfect winter plumage alive, on the 19th of January, 1837, 
and an immature bird in the first winter plumage, on the 
22nd of February, also alive. We resided at that time at 
Esher, in Surrey : these birds were captured in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of the Thames; from these two living specimens 
our drawings for the quarto work were made. 
The geographical range of the Kittiwake is very extensive; 
during the summer months it extends to very high northern 
latitudes, where it also breeds ; among others, we can enu- 
