inches of the head of a rock-climber, I never saw one
actually strike home.
The Herring-Gull of the Mediterranean differs from
our common race in the possession of yellow instead of
flesh-coloured legs and feet, and a deep orange-red
ring round the eye. This bird has been specifically
separated by naturalists from Lams argentahts; but in
all its habits and in cry it exactly resembles that bird,
and in my humble opinion is only a climatic race. It
is by far the most common of the larger Gulls in all
parts of the Mediterranean that I have visited, and has
been met with by Mr. H. Saunders on the western
coast of France.
