. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. BLACK-HEADED GULL, in SUHtinCr, 1/6 Black-headed Gull : Larus ridibundus. Locally, " Cob," and " Peewit ; A resident, though local, uncommon and partially migratory. It still breeds on the coast at several spots, though in much smaller numbers than it ^â ^>>->. _ ^ used at one time. "^^ âs-^--^ ^ It is now the only Gull breeding with us. Dale ^ speaks of it (2.^g 402) as the " Pe- wit or Blackcap," the former name being still some- times used in Es- sex. It does n
. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. BLACK-HEADED GULL, in SUHtinCr, 1/6 Black-headed Gull : Larus ridibundus. Locally, " Cob," and " Peewit ; A resident, though local, uncommon and partially migratory. It still breeds on the coast at several spots, though in much smaller numbers than it ^â ^>>->. _ ^ used at one time. "^^ âs-^--^ ^ It is now the only Gull breeding with us. Dale ^ speaks of it (2.^g 402) as the " Pe- wit or Blackcap," the former name being still some- times used in Es- sex. It does not often appear inland in the county during sum- mer, but on Junei6th 1883, I saw a party of five Gullsâpre- sumably of this speciesâfly over here in an easterly direction. On May 12th, iSSo, I saw a pair of Gulls, I believe of this species, fly over Saffron Walden, and on August 20th in the following year Mr. Travis received a young bird of the year shot near the town. Edward Doubleday states (15) that he met with it at Epping "in a very exhausted state, after long stormy ; Great numbers frequent the Mucking Flats during winter (Sackett). The earliest record we have of its breeding in the county is that of Fuller, who in his Worthies of England (1662, p. 3l8)-says :â " There is an island of some two hundred acres, near Harwich, in the parish of Little Okeley, in the manour of Matthew Gilly, Esquire, called the Piiit Island from Puits [which are] in effect the sole inhabitants thereof. Some affirm them [to be] called in Latin iipulir, whilst others maintain that the Roman Language doth not reach the name, nor [the Roman] Land afford the bird. On Saint George his day [April 23rd] precisely (so I am informed by Captain Farmer of Newgate Market, copyholder of the Island) they pitch on the Island, seldom laying fewer than four, or more than six eggs. Great [is] their love to their young ones. For though against foul weather they make to the mainland (a c
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