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Title: A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Harting, James Edmund, 1841-1928
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, J.C. Nimmo
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the sea,on rocky ledges and precipitous cliffs. The breeding haunts of the Black-headed Gullin England are almost too numerous to mention.I have visited colonies in Essex, Kent, Sussex,Hants, Dorset, Norfolk, Lancashire, and Northumber-land, and have heard of several in other counties.See my article on Gulleries, Field, Feb. 2 and 16,1884, In winter these birds are quite commonon the Thames, and fearlessly visit the ornamentalwaters in the London parks, sojourning there oftenfor many weeks, being well fed by visitors. InScotland and Ireland, owing doubtless to the widerextent of unreclaimed bog land, there are manymore gulleries of this kind, and the birds areproportionately more numerous throughout thecountry at the close of the breeding season. LITTLE GULL. Lams minuhts, Pallas. Length, 11 in.;bill, 1 -25 in.; wing, 8*75 ; tarsus, 1 in. An irregular visitant in autumn and winter; insome years, as in 1866, 1868, and 1869, particularlynumerous on the east coast of England. The indivi-
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GULLS 299 duals obtained are usually birds of the year or adults inwinter plumage, but in February 1870, after prolongedeasterly gales, the proportion of adults to immaturebirds was reversed, and the former were remarkablynumerous. The nearest breeding haunts of theLittle Gull, according to Mr. Howard Saunders, areprobably those in the morasses of Esthonia, and be-tween Lake Ladoga and Archangel. In a very fewinstances the Little Gull has been found here inbreeding plumage, that is to say, with head andupper portion of the neck black. One with theblack head fully developed was shot on the sandsat Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, June 28, 1854 (T.Edward, Nat., 1854, p. 226); a second, seen incompany with it, escaped. Another specimen wasobtained at Churt, near Frensham, in February 1875(Zool, 1875, p. 4459). In Oct. 1889 a white varietywas obtained off Flamborough Head (Zool., 1890,p. 19). The Little Gull is a rare bird in Scotland (seeFauna of Sutherland, p. 231), but is met withirregularl

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