Class II; HERRING GULL. 5S5 



thofe long feathers, fo he has omitted them in 

 the print. 



Linnaeus has feparated this from its mate, his 

 Larus parafiticus^ and made it a fynonym to his L. 

 Qatar aftes, a bird as different from this as any other 

 of the whole genus. 



Burgermeitfer Martin's Spitz- Larus fufcus. Lin. Jyft. 125. ~4-6- Hen- 



berg. 84. Faun. Suec. fp^ 154. rinc. 



Herring Gull. Wil. err.. 345. Danis Silde-Maage. Iflanais 



Larus cinereus maximus. Raii Veyclebjalla. Brunnicb, 142. 



fyn. a-j. 127. Grcfie Staff Moeur. Frifcb, 



Le Goiland gris. BriJJon a--v> II. 218. 



VI. 162. Br. Zool. 141. 



>*TpHIS gull weighs upwards of thirty ounces: the Descrip. 

 •** length twenty-three inches \ its breadth fifty- 

 two, The bill yellow, and the lower mandible 

 marked with an orange colored fpot : the irides 

 ftraw color: the edges of the eye-lids red: the head, 

 neck, and tail white : the back, and coverts of the 

 wings afh colored : the upper part of the five firfl 

 quil-feathers are black, marked with a white fpot 

 near their end: the legs of a pale flefh color. Thefe 

 birds breed on the ledges of rocks that hang over 

 the fea : they make a large neft of dead grais, and 

 lay three eggs of a dirty white, fpotted with black. 

 The young are afh colored, fpotted with brown; 

 they do not come to their, proper color the. firfl year: 

 this is common to other gulls >, which has greatly 



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