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HERRING GULL. 
Shetland. On the lakes of the Continent it appears 
to he equally distributed as in Britain, extending 
northward to Norway and south-eastward to Italy. 
Mr. Yarrell also gives to it Barbary, Syria, Egypt, 
the Red Sea, and Trebisond, and Mr. Temminck says 
it has been received from the Cape of Good Hope. 
We possess a gull from Southern Africa very similar, 
but which we have hitherto considered distinct. 
This bird in the breeding season has the neck, 
lower back, tail, and under parts, white ; the mantle 
and wings deep blackish grey ; the quills black, the 
first having the tip and a broad bar white, the others 
with triangular white tips ; the bill and legs are 
yellow, the angle of the mandible orange, a ring of 
vermilion-red surrounds the eyelids ; the length is 
about twenty-three inches or two feet. In w’inter 
the head and nape are streaked with pale greyisk 
brown. The young resembles much that of the 
last, but is always much less. 
The next three large species have the mantle 
of a pale shade, but are distinguished from each 
other by a different distribution of the markings, 
&c. The most common is 
The Herring Gull, Larus argentatus. — Goe- 
land d manteau lluc,\-.iTemm.‘ — Herring Gull of 
British authors . — The Herring Gull is generally 
spread around Great Britain and Ireland, and is ex- 
tended northward to Shetland ; it is, however, per- 
