LAUGHING GULL, 



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mask : the legs reddish-brown. In the summer the 

 mask is dirty grey-brown : the top of the head, cheeks, 

 opening of the ears, and throat light brown : nape 

 and fore part of the neck white, and the brown on 

 the throat much deeper than on the head : legs red- 

 dish. 



A new species published by M. Temminck ; ac- 

 cording to whom it is found on some of the British 

 coasts, common in the Orcades, and in Scotland: 

 also in various parts of the Arctic Circle, and Baffin's 

 Bay and Davis's Straits. The eggs are said to be 

 ashy-green, with deeper spots. 



LAUGHING GULL. 



(Larus atricilla.) 



La. albus, capite jiigricante, rostro ruhro, pedibiis nigris. 

 White Gull with the head dusky, the beak red, and the legs 

 black. 



Larus atricilla. Linn. Sj/st. Nat. 1.225. Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1. 



600. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 813. 

 Gavia ridibunda. Briss. Orn. 6. I92.pl. IS.Jl 1. 

 Mouette a capuchon plombe. Temm. man. d'Orn. 2 Edit. ii. 779. 

 Laughing Gull. Cateshy, Carol. 1. pi. 89. Penn. Arct. Zool. 



2. 454. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 383. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1 ? Wils. 



Ainer, Orn. v. ix. pi. Ixxiv. f. 4. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 137- 



This bird greatly resembles the preceding, but it 

 is distinguished by its larger size : the head and the 

 upper part of the neck are bluish-black : between the 

 shoulders is very deep bluish : the quills are longer 



