. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARID^.. 667. THE MEDITERRANEAN BLACK-HEADED GULL. Larus mjSlanoc^phalus, Natterer. On December 26th 1886, Mr. G. Smith of Great Yarmouth in- formed me that he had just received an adult example of this species in winter-plumage, shot on Breydon Broad; the bird was examined in the flesh by Messrs. Southwell, J. H. Gurney and others, and I subsequently exhibited it at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London. This is the first authenticated instance of the occurrence of the Mediterranean Black-headed Gull in the British Islands. There is, ho
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARID^.. 667. THE MEDITERRANEAN BLACK-HEADED GULL. Larus mjSlanoc^phalus, Natterer. On December 26th 1886, Mr. G. Smith of Great Yarmouth in- formed me that he had just received an adult example of this species in winter-plumage, shot on Breydon Broad; the bird was examined in the flesh by Messrs. Southwell, J. H. Gurney and others, and I subsequently exhibited it at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London. This is the first authenticated instance of the occurrence of the Mediterranean Black-headed Gull in the British Islands. There is, however, an immature specimen in the British Museum, which is said (and, I believe, with truth) to have been shot in January 1866, near Barking Creek on the Thames ; but this was not correctly identified until I saw it in 1871, and, considering the possibility of some accidental exchange during the interval, I did not include the species in the 4th edition of ' Yarrell.' Its characteristics were, however, described in that work, and the result was the identification of the Breydon bird. I have seen examples of this Gull from the mouth of the Somme in the north of France, whence a southerly gale would soon bring it to our coasts, and it is found nearly every year at the mouth of the Gironde; while there may be some breeding-place along the low shores to the southward, as about a score of birds, unmistakably of this species, were observed during the first week of March 1882 at. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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