. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Frmn a photograph from life bij E. B. Lodge, {Bissa Iridactyln) AT HEB NEST. /fe^-. Photiigi-aph bij C. Beid, Wishaw. A FLIGHT OF GULLS. BRITISH GULLS. By Aubyn Teevor-Battye, , , etc. NO group of birds taken as a vv^hole is more easily recognisable, both by structureand habits, than the family of Gulls {Laridce). This family has been dividedby ornithologists into three sub-families—the Terns or Sea-swallows (Steminm), the Gulls(LarincB), and the Skuas or Bobber gulls (Stercorariina). Of these, th
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Frmn a photograph from life bij E. B. Lodge, {Bissa Iridactyln) AT HEB NEST. /fe^-. Photiigi-aph bij C. Beid, Wishaw. A FLIGHT OF GULLS. BRITISH GULLS. By Aubyn Teevor-Battye, , , etc. NO group of birds taken as a vv^hole is more easily recognisable, both by structureand habits, than the family of Gulls {Laridce). This family has been dividedby ornithologists into three sub-families—the Terns or Sea-swallows (Steminm), the Gulls(LarincB), and the Skuas or Bobber gulls (Stercorariina). Of these, the terns and skuas—since they would in justice require a separate article—are here omitted altogether; and we will consider only the gulls (Larinm). We need not here concern ourselves to take thegulls in the order of their genera; indeed, perhaps a clearer way (in a popular article)will be to group them quite unscientifically, according to their distribution at nestingtime—as arctic and non-arctic gulls. ? We may begin with the most beautiful of all the gulls and the most or the Wedge-tailed gull {Bodostethia rosea). This is a true arctic g
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