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LARUS MINUTUS. 
LITTLE GULL.* 
Snowy ; head and beginning of the neck 
black; back and wings russet; beak brown 
red ; legs scarlet. 
Larus Minutus, Lin. Gme. Lath. 
Mouette Pygmee, Tern. 
Little Gull, Lath. Mont. 
The Ornithologist is indebted to G. Mon- 
tagu for the first notice of this bird as a 
British species. It was shot on the Thames, 
near Chelsea. Our drawing is made frpm 
a specimen in the British Museum. 
* Bewick, in the Supplement to his work on British Birds, 
recently published, has given Montagu's description of this 
species, but considers it as the young of the Kittiwake, and 
has evidently given the figure of that bird. We are asto- 
nished at the error, as the Tarrock, or young of the Kitti- 
wake, is at least half as large again as the Larus Minutus. 
