MASKED GULL. 



in other respects the plumage is the same as in the 

 winter. 



The Red-legged Gull inhabits the banks of large 

 rivers or lakes, retiring in the winter to the sea- 

 coasts : it is common in most parts of Europe, and 

 particularly so in Holland, throughout the year. It 

 occurs also in plenty in this country, and breeds in 

 the fens of Lincolnshire and other parts : it makes a 

 nest on the ground with rushes, dead grass, and such 

 like materials, and lays three eggs of an olivaceous- 

 brown, marked with rusty-brown blotches. As soon 

 as the young are able to accompany their parents, 

 they all retire from the interior to the coasts. 



MASKED GULL. 



(Larus capistratus.) 



La. albus, capite hrunneo, remigibus exterioribus rachidibiis albis, 



rostro pedibusque brunneo-rvfis. 

 White Gull with the head brown, the shafts of the outer quills 



white, the beak and legs brown-red. 

 Larus capistratus. Mouette a masque brun. Temm. man. Orn. 



2 Edit. ii. 785. 

 Masked Gull. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 139. 



Very similar to the foregoing bird : its length is 

 thirteen inches : beak smaller and more slender than 

 in the former : the outer quills with white shafts : the 

 entire front of the head light brown, appearing as a 



