L E S S E E B L A C K - B A C K E D G U L L.
YELLOW-LEGGED GULL.
Lartts //mus, BEWICK. FLEMING. SKLBY.
" " JENYNS. GOULD. TEMMINCK.
" argmtatus, MONTAGU.
Larus—A ravenous sea-bird. Fuscus—Dark, dusk)'.
T h e Gull thus tailed is, in Europe, common in Norway, and generally
on the coasts of the Baltic Sea, and is found in Holland, Belgium,
France, Dalmatia, and throughout Italy. In Africa, it occurs in Egypt,
and thence to Barbary, and so on to the Cape of Good Hope; and in
Asia, in Syria, Asia Minor, and Arabia, along the shore of the Bed
Sea; also in North America, coming south to Carolina.
This species breeds on Roinscy Island, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, and
near St, David's; the Fern Islands, off the coast of Northumberland;
as also inland on the moors, by the Cumberland Border, and is likewise
known along the1 shores of Sussex. Hants, Suffolk, Dorset, Devon, and
(lorn wall. in which last-named, the species is not uncommon about
Falmouth, Penryn Uiver, Swanpool, Gwyllynvasc, and the coast
generally.
In Scotland, they also build on islands in Loch Awe, Loch Shin,
Loch Laigal, and others in Sutherlandshirc, and at the Solway Frith;
also in the 1 lebrides.
Individuals have occurred in Yorkshire, at Leeds and Sheffield, young
birds; on the coast it is not uncommon. In Norfolk, two were shot
in Yarmouth Roads, October 7th., 1827: they occur along the coast,
but not in large numbers. A solitary individual has sometimes been
seen in Oxfordshire, near Witney, and the species occurs not very
unfrequently in different parts of the county. Some visit Northamptonshire
nearly every winter.
I t is indigenous in lrelrnd. but local; likewise, as stated, in several