A bird with a red beak and black feathers under its wings was placed last week in. a glass case in the museum of the Boston Society of Natural History.
In the great winds that stormed the Western coast of Europe last autumn, this bird, a black-headed European gull, four times as small as a herring gull, had been carried far out into the sea. Six weeks ago Ludlow Griscom of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and S. Gilbert Emilio of the Peabody Museum in Salem saw the black-headed gull in a...
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