. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . Melville Island, Mexico,and thence to Labrador, and on Whitehead Island, in theBay of Fundy, also about New York and Philadelphia. The Herring Gull is common on our coasts, and remainsthroughout the year. The present species breeds abundantly at Flamborough Head,in Yorkshire, the well-known promontory on which a light-house has for ages been placed, from whence its name,originally, no doubt, Flameborough; also on the Fern Islands,off the Northumbrian coast; North Berwick Harbour, in Scot-land, and the Solway Frith; Sumburgh Head, in Sh
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . Melville Island, Mexico,and thence to Labrador, and on Whitehead Island, in theBay of Fundy, also about New York and Philadelphia. The Herring Gull is common on our coasts, and remainsthroughout the year. The present species breeds abundantly at Flamborough Head,in Yorkshire, the well-known promontory on which a light-house has for ages been placed, from whence its name,originally, no doubt, Flameborough; also on the Fern Islands,off the Northumbrian coast; North Berwick Harbour, in Scot-land, and the Solway Frith; Sumburgh Head, in Shetland;and on an island near St. Davids Head, in Wales. In Yorkshire, it is a common species on the coast, and,inland, specimens have been procured at Hebden Bridge andBarnsley, and at Sheffield, young birds. In Suffolk, they arenot uncommon; and in Norfolk, about Yarmouth and alongthe coast. In Hampsliire, they are exceedingly common aboutLymington; also in Dorsetshire and Devonshire, and are notuncommon in Cornwall, about Falmouth and Penryn River. I I. HEREIN (J, GULL. 99 One, of whicli Mr. Thomas Willmot has written me word,was captured between Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, onor about the 25th. of January, 1855. A few are seen inNorthamptonshire most winters. In Worcestershire, one wasshot towards the end of February, 1843, at Lower Wick, onthe banks of the River Teme, near Worcester. The speciesis frequently observed in Oxfordshire. Parties of them oc-casionally visit the River Trent, in Derbyshire, for a few were believed by the Rev. Leonard Jenyns to have beenshot at Overcote, near Swavesey, Cambridgeshire. It is a common Irish species, and frequents also the coastof Wales in abundance. It is extremely numerous in manyparts of Orkney and Shetland. I have received several particulars respecting this speciesfrom John Dutton, Esq., He writes—The HerringGull is exceedingly common on the coasts of Hampshire andin the Isle of Wight. They build in great num
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