LITTLE GULt. 



than in that species, and are imifor m blaek, with their 

 base bluish : the legs are of a black-purple. 



A native of America, and also of the eastern parts 

 of the vast Russian empire, and of the Austral islands ^ 

 and, according to Montagu, of this country also ; he 

 having observed several of them feeding in a pool 

 near Winchester, one of which he shot ; and likewise 

 two others near Hastings, in Sussex. Its voice re^ 

 sembles a coarse laugh. Is supposed to breed at 

 Hudson's Bay ; at least a bird similar to it is said to 

 make its nest in the pine trees ! and lays four ? lead- 

 coloured eggs. 



Wilson, or at least Ord, the continuator of his 

 admirable work, says, that this species builds in the 

 marshes, and lays three clay-coloured eggs, which are 

 marked with irregular spots of purple and clear brown. 



LITTLE GULL. 



(Larils mii^utuS.) 



La. albus, capite nigro, alts cinereis, remigibus apice albis, pe* 

 dibtis coccineis. 



White Gull with the head black, the wings ash-coloor, the tips 



of the quills white, and the legs scarlet. 

 Larus minutus. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. i)i>5. Lath. Jnd. Orn. 2. 



813. Frank. Journ. App.p. 696. 

 Mouette pygmee. Temm. man. d'Orn. % Edit. ii. 787. 

 Larus atricilloides, Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1. 601. Lath. Ind. Orn, 



11. 813. 



Little Gull. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 391. Mont. Orn. Diet. Afip. 

 Lath. Gen. Hist. x. HO. 



