BRITISH BIRDS. 
article of food, yet in the breeding feafon, where 
accommodation and proteftion are afforded them, 
they ftill regularly refort to the fame old haunts, 
which have been occupied by their kind for a long 
time paft. * The foregoing figure and defcription 
were taken from a fpecimen fliot on Preftwick-Car, 
near Newcaftle upon Tyne. 
The Larus Atrlcilla of Linnaeus (Laughing Gull 
of Catelby, &c.) is by fome naturalifts believed 
to be an old bird of this fpecies, differing from 
it only in being rather larger, and in having the 
legs black. 
* This IS the Cafe with the flocks which now breed at Pal- 
llnsburne, in Northumberland, where they are accounted of 
great ufe In clearing the furrounding lands of noxious Infedls, 
worms, flugs, &c. 
