. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARIDjIi. 663. THE LITTLE GULL. Larus MiNUTUS, Pallas. This species, the smallest member of the genus, was introduced to the British list by Montagu, who described and figured a young bird shot near Chelsea prior to 1813. Subsequently specimens have frequently been obtained, while in 1866, and again in 1868, Little Gulls appeared on the coast of Yorkshire in numbers till then un- precedented ; though these were far exceeded along the entire east side of England during the winter of 1869, and again after the heavy easterly gales of February 1870,
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARIDjIi. 663. THE LITTLE GULL. Larus MiNUTUS, Pallas. This species, the smallest member of the genus, was introduced to the British list by Montagu, who described and figured a young bird shot near Chelsea prior to 1813. Subsequently specimens have frequently been obtained, while in 1866, and again in 1868, Little Gulls appeared on the coast of Yorkshire in numbers till then un- precedented ; though these were far exceeded along the entire east side of England during the winter of 1869, and again after the heavy easterly gales of February 1870, when the proportion of adults to young birds was unusually large. This Gull has also occurred along the Channel as far as Cornwall, but it seldom visits Wales and Lancashire, though more frequent of late years in the Solway district. Along the west of Scotland it has appeared at intervals as farnorthward as Skye and North Uist; while on the east, as might be expected, the bird is more frequently met with, and has been. 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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