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Identifier: birdsofbritain00bonh (find matches)
Title: Birds of Britain
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bonhote, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1875-1922 Dresser, Henry Eeles, 1838-1915
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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deeredby a pair of these birds for their summer home. Thenest, composed of grass and rubbish, is usually placed onthe highest point. They lay two or three eggs, which arestone buff in colour, blotched and spotted with lightbrown and grey. The most usual note is a deep ow, ow, ow. In plumagethe adult is almost the counterpart of the preceding,but the legs are flesh-coloured. Length 23 in.; wing19 in. The young are mottled and barred with various shadesof brown and buff, but are rather lighter in colour than thoseof the Herring Gull. The adult plumage is assumed byprecisely the same stages as in the other species, and theymay occasionally become fully adult in their third summer. THE GLAUCOUS GULL Larus glaucus, O. Fabricius This large white-winged Gull is an annual visitor to thenorth of Scotland, but southwards it becomes scarcer, and itis only in very severe weather that it visits the south of 368 GREATER BLACK-BACKED GULL Larus inarimisSummer (right). Young, first autumn (left) i «
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The Glaucous Gull England. Its breeding range is circumpolar, its nearestbreeding-place to our shores being in Iceland. The mantle and wings are pearl-grey, with white tips tothe secondaries and outermost webs of the quills. Orbitalring vermilion. Legs pink. Immature birds are whitishuniformly and thickly mottled with ash grey. Length.29 in. ; wing 18 in. THE ICELAND GULL Larus leucopterus, Faber This species is very closely allied in plumage and habitsto the preceding. It is a winter visitor to the shores ofScotland, only coming south in severe weather. It breedson Jan Mayen Islands and Greenland, and is only a wintervisitor to the island wliose name it bears. Except in size it is almost a counterpart of the GlaucousGull, but the orbital rino- is flesh-coloured, and the \e^,syellowish. Length 22 in.; wing 16 in. THE KITTIWAKE GULL Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus) With the Kittiwake we come to a species of Gull whichdiffers in its general build from those we have hithertodealt with. It is

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