140 GULL. 



part of the neck white, and the brown on the throat much deeper 

 than on the head; legs reddish. M. Temminck says, this bird lias 

 not hitherto been discriminated from the Black-headed Gulls; but 

 it differs in being- smaller; by its bill and legs being both more 

 slender; the toes shorter; and the under wing coverts light ash-colour, 

 instead of dusky. 



Inhabits chiefly the Arctic Circle ; common in the Orknies, in 

 Scotland, and on some of the Coasts of England. One, exactly the 

 same, has also been met with both in Baffin's Bay, and Davis's 

 Straits. 



6.-LITTLE GULL. 



Larus minutus, Ind. Orn. ii. 813. Gm.Lin.\. 595. Pall. reise,\n. 702. 35. N. Act. 



Stockh. 1783. 2. No 1. p. 120. Tern. Man. 509. Id. Ed. 2d. 787. Franklin's 



Narr. App. p. 696. 

 Larus atricilloides, Ind. Orn. ii. 813. Gin. Lin. i. 601. Falck. It.'m. 355. t. 24. 

 Little Gull, Gen. Syn. vi. 391. 17. Orn. Diet. 



SIZE of the Missel Thrush,. Bill reddish brown ; irides bluish ; 

 the head and beginning of the neck black ; the rest of the neck and 

 body white; back and wings grey, but the quills are white at the 

 ends; tail even, white; legs red. 



Inhabits the southern parts of Russia and Siberia; found about 

 the shores of the Caspian Sea, and the rivers falling into it, migrating 

 in summer up the Wolga, in order to breed, but is a rare species. 



A. — Little Gull, Orn. Diet. App. pi. in ditto. 

 Sterna fusca, Raii, 131. A. 15. Will. 208. 

 Brown Tern, Ein Kessler, Will. Engl. 352. 



This is the Brown Tern of Baltner, as quoted by Ray and Wil- 

 lughby, and concerning which we have hitherto been under much 

 uncertainty; but through the kindness of the late Earl of Dartmouth, 

 in whose possession Leonard Baltner's drawings were, we have been 



