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,, ri.s$a Ivittiwalce ,, ^ jMont„ Ofnitli. Diet.
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,, tridactylus, Mouette triductyte, Temm. Mata. d’Orilitnt vo1*ij?'p. 774.
T h e early descxibersofithisspeeies-'seemjiot to have been
aware that the Gull named the Tarrock, L a ru s tridactylus,
was only the young state olL that which had been previously
called the Kittiwake, L a r u s r is sa ; but this is a point satisfactorily
ascertained pow. The figure in our illustration with
•the’ dark-coloured markings on the neck and wings, is taken
from p^ppa-ng^ib^d of the year ; the other figure is from an
/bird*killed ah the Isle of Wight, early in the month of
J udm '1
ffl» l$ n e l Montagu/ was certainly mistaken in considering
the Kittiwake a rare ibird on- oiir southern coast. This Gull
5felAeidec0y a^dek^br^ddb^ and very common in the breeding
seaapn oh a l l ^ e rocky^affeOf the coast of Hampshire, Dorsetshire,.
Devonshire and p a rt, of Cornwall. I have seen
h u ^ ^ e ^ ^ h ^ ih # day^-in thelfirst week in June, between the
fe^eedilu -Hocks afi^ftesh^water' Gate in 'th e Isle of Wight.
Mr". Thompson mentions thatiil§is only a summer-visiter to
dryland, and [|fM#sknown to. migrate in autumn from the
fosasts^oS, Durham, Northumberland, H o lla n d , from the
piefotch Islands, andlfbPnr.all the numerous places still further
lfe®l|^p)^hich it' resorts for the breeding-season ; but Dr.
EcLward' Moore,; m < ^ ^ ^ having killed -the young bird in
Devonshire in November^-; I am .confident that I have seen
thM'spfecife^'iin winter in Dorsetshire -and Hampshire; and
Ml'1 Vi^fLo^ays it js stationary on the coast of France.
That1 man^gtjbfar south in winter the localities to be hereafter
quoted will prove^iS’
PiPcF'he/?^oung -bird, while bearing on its plumage the dark-
coloured markings, haptbeen called the Tarrock ; the adult
‘"bird is the. Kittiwake, and the name has, reference to the cry
of this Gull, which, when disturbed at its breeding-station,
utters three notes in quick, succession, which closely resemble
inbound the wordAifcquestion. A writer in the Field Naturalists’
Magazine., in his Notes from the Isle of Wight,
volume ii. page 74, mentions a very curious fact in reference
I g a Gull, which I believe to have been a Kittiwake. He
says, “ In the next parish to this there is a Gull, either the