BLACK-HEADED COLL. 
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is found nesting in large numbers in Scotland, as far north as 
the Shetland Islands. In Ireland, Mr. Ussher says, it has 
breeding colonies, large and small, on bogs and on small 
islands in lakes, sometimes of tens of thousands, as on Killeen- 
more Bog near Tullamere, sometimes of but a few pairs. it 
is reported to breed in Donegal, Antrim, Down, y^magh, 
Monaghan, Fermanagh, Cavan, Westmeath, County, 
Queen’s County, Tipperary, Kerry, Limerick, Oare, Galway, 
Roscommon, Mayo, and Leitrim. A few breed on Beginish, 
a small flat island in the Blasquet group, an unusual instance ot 
a marine breeding-place. 
Kange outside the BritisU Islands.-The present species is 
found, according to Mr. Saunders, thrmighout Lurope from 
the Faeroes, Southern Norway and Sweden, Russia, from 
Archangel down to the Mediterranean, and across tempe- 
rate Asia to Kamtchatka, where it also breeds. In winter 
it visits Senegambia, Nubia, and the Red Sea, the Persian 
Gulf and the Indian Ocean, China, Japan, and the Philip- 
pines. 
Habits.— The name » i?/ar/I--headed Gull” is a decided 
misnomer for this species, for the hood is bmun rather than 
black, and it is the more inappropriate as there are some Gulls 
of this group which have absolutely black caps. It is a 
grec^arious species, nesting in colonies, and even in the autumn 
ancT winter congregating in flocks, which frequent tidal harbours 
and are often a conspicuous feature at pier-heads when the tide 
comes in. I have often seen them circling within a few feet of 
the heads of the visitors at Gorleston Harbour, on the east 
coast, and one of the most interesting features of the day was 
to go and throw food to these pretty creatures at the end of 
the pier. They arc almost equally tame on the Thames when 
they ascend the river in winter. _ 
Many accounts have been published of visits paid by 
naturalists to “gulleries” of this species, orie of the most 
renowned being at Scoulton in Norfolk, of which the late Mr. 
G. Dawson Rowley has given the following account 
“The first intimation of the proximity of the Gulls was a 
flight of them feeding in a cornfield near Scoulton Church, 
