. Oologia neerlandica : eggs of birds breeding in the Netherlands . e« 3O l->ct M 3 S e 3 z I XLI. Family „ STERNIDAE. Families LARIDAE and STERNIDAE.(Plates 160—180). LARUS ARGENTATUS BRUNNICH. Dr. G. a. Venema ) wrote as follows about the difference in thecolour of the shell of argentatiis-eggs: „ ... It will, I am sure, not be considered strange if I declare that I regard„the difference in the colour of the shell of the eggs to be dependent on the„nature of the food. The Herring-Gull eats small fishes by preference, which„in mild weather, if it is not blowing too hard, it c

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. Oologia neerlandica : eggs of birds breeding in the Netherlands . e« 3O l->ct M 3 S e 3 z I XLI. Family „ STERNIDAE. Families LARIDAE and STERNIDAE.(Plates 160—180). LARUS ARGENTATUS BRUNNICH. Dr. G. a. Venema ) wrote as follows about the difference in thecolour of the shell of argentatiis-eggs: „ ... It will, I am sure, not be considered strange if I declare that I regard„the difference in the colour of the shell of the eggs to be dependent on the„nature of the food. The Herring-Gull eats small fishes by preference, which„in mild weather, if it is not blowing too hard, it catches in the shallows,„or which it is able to find in the crests or hollows of the waves. The it considers ^tastiest is young flounders, plaice, and sole which in„many instances are born in the shallows to be trained there for the turbulent„life at sea, and hence the Herring-Gull visits fishermen at sea when they are„drawing in their nets and it likes to follow shoals of rapacious fish, as theypCause the small fishes on which they

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