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L I T T L E G U L L.
Lams minutes, MONTAGU. BEWICK.
Lams atricWoides, GMELTN. FLEMING. SRLBY.
i i JENYNS. LATHAM. TEMMINCK.
Chroiocephalus mtnufus, EYTON.
Xema mtnuhts, GOULD.
M i n u t u s — M i n u t e — s m a l l .
'THIS diminutive and elegant species occurs in Europe in Russia,
Finland, and Denmark, and individual specimens have been obtained
in Holland, Hungary, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. In Asia—
in Tartarv and Siberia, and about the ('aspian Sea and the Black
Sea. In America a young bird appears to have been seen.
I n Yorkshire, two were seen about the 20th. of October, IS 19, and
one of them shot, at Auburn House, near Burlington Quay, by Mr.
Jones, of the latter place; another was presented to me by John
Dickson, Esq., of Nafferlon: it is in the winter plumage; several others
near there also at different times; another near Redcar, January 16th.,
1850; one at Scarborough, by Mr. Patrick llawkridge, in November,
1836; two were seen on Skipwith Common, September 1st., 1856.
A specimen of the Little Gull was shot at Yarmouth, in Norfolk, on
May 30th., 1849; others have occurred, though rarely, most years;
one was killed in the middle of November, 1843, within the city of
Norwich. In Suffolk, one in 1832. In Northumberland, one at the
mouth of the Tyne, in September, 1835. One in adult plumage,
near Lewes, Sussex, the 29th. of November, 1850. In [Somersetshire,
one near Weston-super-Mare, January 7th., 1851: it also w a s a
mature specimen. In Derbyshire, one, a young bird of the year, in
the parish of King's Newton, the 22nd. of January, 1851, by 11. Ortoji,
Esq.; when first seen, it was swimming in the Trent, near_ AVeston
Cliff. In Cornwall, two shot at Swanpool, Falmouth, by T. Passingham,
Esq., January, 1847; and in the same month another was