Identifier: birdsEuropeVGoul (find matches)
Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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^ fe o COMMON GULL. Larus canus, Linn. La Mouette a pieds bleus. The Common Gull, as its name implies, is one of the most abundant species inhabiting the British seas, therebeing- no part of our coast on which it may not be found; it is, moreover, a resident species, breeding,according to Mr. Selby, on bold rocky headlands overhanging the sea, and sometimes on islands; or onthe shores of lakes, as I have found in two or three instances in the Western Highlands of Scotland. AtSt. Abbs Head, a bold and rocky headland of Berwickshire, these birds are very numerous during thebreeding-season, and occupy the whole of the face of the cliff. The nest is formed of sea-weed and grasses; the eggs, which are two and sometimes three in number, areof a yellowish white, blotched irregularly with brown and grey. Like many of the other members of the genus, this bird is two, if not three years before it attains itsperfect plumage, the change being from mottled greyish brown to a delicate lead colour o

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