Identifier: handbookguidetob00live (find matches)
Title: Handbook and guide to the British birds on exhibition in the Lord Derby Natural History Museum, Liverpool
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Liverpool Museum (Liverpool, England)
Subjects: Liverpool Museum (Liverpool, England) Birds
Publisher: Liverpool, C. Tinling
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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terial such as grass, heatheror seaweed. The eggs, three in number, are laid early in May, andvary greatly in colour, but are generally olive brown, spotted withdark brown (see British Bird Egg Cabinet, drawer 22). Case 207. HERRING GULL (Lams argentatus).Local name : Silver Gull. A resident, abundant on the coasts at all seasons, and breedingwherever precipitous rocks or isolated stacks afford a suitablerefuge. Many pairs also nest among the sandhills on the north-eastcoast of Scotland, and some colonies may be found on the islets inlochs. This species generally nests in company with others of itskind, and often among colonies of the Lesser Black-backed andCommon Gulls. Like other large Gulls it is a great robber of eggs andyoung birds. The nest is formed of grass, and the eggs, three innumber, are of a stone colour, or Hght olive brown, blotched andspotted with dark umber (see British Bird Egg Cabinet, drawer 22).In Lancashire the nesting places are few in number, mainlv at Foulshaw
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39 Moss, near Morecambe Bay. Examples of the various changes ofplumage of this Gull, from the chick to the adult plumage of a fiveyear old Gull, may be seen in Case No. 229. Case 208. GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL (Lams marinus).Local name : Devoke water maw. The largest of our resident species, frequently seen on the Merseyduring the winter, and numerous a few miles off the shore all the yearround. It breeds in small numbers on the south and west coasts ofEngland and in Wales, but is common in many parts of Scotland andIreland. It feeds largely on animal food, attacking sickly sheep andlambs, devouring the young and eggs of game-birds and water-fowl,as well as carrion. The roughly constructed nest, made of seaweed,dry grass, etc., is usually situated on isolated stacks or on an islet insome secluded mountain loch. In Lancashire it nests on Piling Mossand on the fells near Rusland, not far from Morecambe Bay. Theeggs, two or three in number, are brownish-buff, blotched with umberand dark-gr

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