Crossword-Solution: LARUS 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

With many kinds of gulls (Larus), the head and neck become pure white during the summer, being grey or mottled during the winter and in the young state.

Lastly, with respect to Gulls, though many have been kept in the Zoological Gardens and in the old Surrey Gardens, no instance was known before the year 1848 of their coupling or breeding; but since that period the herring gull (_Larus argentatus_) has bred many times in the Zoological Gardens and at Knowsley.

Edmondston, a similar change periodically occurs in the Shetland Islands in the stomach of the _Larus argentatus,_ which in the spring frequents the cornfields and feeds on the seed.

Among the gulls (Larus argentatus), Polyakoff saw on a marsh in Northern Russia, that the nesting grounds of a very great number of these birds were always patrolled by one male, which warned the colony of the approach of danger.

GULL (_Larus canus_).—Flocks of those white-breasted birds sometimes alight on ploughed fields round Otterbourne, and even some miles farther from the sea.