LITTLE GULL. 
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niembm!ip°^ joined to the inner one by a strong serrated 
toe is Kittiwakes of the genus Ji/ssa the hind- 
solete or rudimentary. 
I- IHE LITTLE GULL. LARUS MINUTUS. 
Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 702, App. 
(i87^iV-'b u'^Tist’BHt^B' 5'J9- 599^ 
ed. Yarrell’s Brh! i iii. p 
Brit. B. iii. p. 30X (i88s)/salr?ders! H'st. 
(1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit B R- P - ^47 
Saunders, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxv 'p ’i7xTi8^r'f‘ 
Gama minuta, Macgill. Brit. B. v. p 613 O852)." ^• 
wing-coverts like^’^thf bacT h P<^tirly-grey, the 
primary-coverts; quills a Ihtle l the bastard-wmg and 
white tips, excent on iL • ^ pearly-grey, with broad 
like the Wk- tL secondaries, which are 
black more ex tendTo""?,'^’"?'^’^ this 
being blacWsh aW 11“ ? h^st primaries, the outemost 
covens and !.:i^ ^ °titer web also; rump, upper tail- 
and Sd neck ai’ wdW 'he n^pe 
extending over the mantlo^!’^, P^re white, 
lower throat downwards ’ tinder surfiice of body, from the 
under wing-coverts and axilh"^-^ Ph’^ i 
blackish, like the cmiiriin- the median coverts 
brown b prLerved‘TlS'.'^S' ‘I bill deep lake-red (reddish- 
prange-red); iris brown” iW e ''crmihon (drying 
inches; culmen, 0-85 ; winl Total length, 10-5 
o> 9 ^ ; ttiil, '?*cc ! ttirsus 1*2 
Adult Female.— Similar to IP« , > 8 55. mmus, 2. 
"’mg, 8-3. female. Total length, lo'a inches; 
Adult in Winter Plumae-o wi 
summer plumage, the forpL« d black head of the 
hinder crown, Ld nape sFt ^ "'hhe, and the vertex, 
ihe grey soon changes to bSk behind the eye. 
Young.-Blackish-brown .1 , 
gms, broader on the snr, 1 *■ feathers with white mar- 
15 scapulars and inner secondaries; lesser 
