. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . c /^/vy/y(/ * ysfrr/y ,vsrfv. ~^ vm/nm-Mltttn if■■J-iuauni . i ,«,,xS.,rmg gJSunff UuSulUM*. luhpruUf„ Kda^fyJ * 163 THE HERRING OR SILVERY GULL. -/-Larus argentatus, CCCCXLVIII.—Male. On the 22nd of May, 1833, I was kindly received with my party on boardthe United States revenue cutter Svviftsure, commanded by Captain Cool-edge, and on the morning of the next day was landed on White HeadIsland, at the entrance of the Bay of Fundy. This island is the property ofa worthy Englis
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . c /^/vy/y(/ * ysfrr/y ,vsrfv. ~^ vm/nm-Mltttn if■■J-iuauni . i ,«,,xS.,rmg gJSunff UuSulUM*. luhpruUf„ Kda^fyJ * 163 THE HERRING OR SILVERY GULL. -/-Larus argentatus, CCCCXLVIII.—Male. On the 22nd of May, 1833, I was kindly received with my party on boardthe United States revenue cutter Svviftsure, commanded by Captain Cool-edge, and on the morning of the next day was landed on White HeadIsland, at the entrance of the Bay of Fundy. This island is the property ofa worthy Englishman of the name of Frankland, who received us withgreat hospitality, gave us leave to ransack his domains, and invited us toremain as long as we pleased. The Herring Gulls, he said, were breeding ingreat numbers, and we might expect good sport. We immediately set outin search of them, directing our course toward the pine woods, in which wewere informed we should find them, and in approaching which we passedover an elevated marsh of great extent. As we came up to the pla
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