. A history of British birds . f the back ;the primaries dark brown, both as to the shafts and greaterpart of the webs ; upper tail-coverts dull white ; tail-featherswhite, broadly barred with dark brown, except the outerfeather on each side, which has the outer web mainlywhite; chin and throat white ; neck in front, the breast, andall the under surface of the body mottled with light ash-brown, on a ground of white ; legs and feet pale yellowish-brown, the claws black. With the following moult the bandon the tail gradually disappears, and the new outer primaryon each side shows a slight sub-ap
. A history of British birds . f the back ;the primaries dark brown, both as to the shafts and greaterpart of the webs ; upper tail-coverts dull white ; tail-featherswhite, broadly barred with dark brown, except the outerfeather on each side, which has the outer web mainlywhite; chin and throat white ; neck in front, the breast, andall the under surface of the body mottled with light ash-brown, on a ground of white ; legs and feet pale yellowish-brown, the claws black. With the following moult the bandon the tail gradually disappears, and the new outer primaryon each side shows a slight sub-apical white spot or mirror;with successive moults this mirror increases in size, and alsoappears successively on the second and even on the thirdprimaries. The young in down is, like many other nestling Gulls,of a greyish-buff spotted with black, but Saxby says that itmay be distinguished from the Lesser Black-backed Gull bythe presence of dark marks immediately above and belowthe eye. VOL. III. 618 GA VlJi. i-auiua;. LA Laeus argentatus, Gmelin.*THE HERRING GULL. Lavas argentatus. The Herring Gull is a resident and generally distributedspecies on the coasts of the British Islands ; and on thelofty cliifs of the south coast, from Beachy Head to Cornwall,it is more numerous in the breeding-season than any otherkind of Gull. It is very abundant at Lundy Island in theBristol Channel; also on the coast of Wales, where thereis an especially large colony on the Stacks off Holyhead ;it breeds on the cliffs of Cumberland, and, according toMr. A. Durnford (Zool. 1879, p. 339), on Foulshaw Moss,near Arnside, in Westmoreland, in proximity to a far larger * Syst. Nat. i. \<. 600 (1788), ex Bhinnidi. HEURING GULL. 619 colony of Lessev Black-backed Crulls, On the east coastsuitable localities are scarce south of Flamborough in York-shire ; and on the Fame Islands, off Northumberland, itsnumbers are very small in comparison with those of theLesser Black-backed Gull. On the coasts an
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