£ 3 e> \V A G E L. Class II. 



multiplied the fpecies among authors, who are in- 

 attentive to thefe particulars. This gull is a great 

 devourer of fifh, efpecially of that from which it 

 takes its name : it is a conftant attendent on the 

 nets, and fo bold as to feize its prey before the fifh- 

 ermens faces. 



IS 



(A.) Great grey Gull, the Cor- Larus Naevius. Lin. fyjl. 225 



247. Wag EL. n jfh Wagel. Wil orn. 349. Danis Graae-Maage. IJlandi. 



Raii Jyn. au. 130. Kablabrinkar. Brunnich, 



Le Goiland varie, ou le Gri- 150. 



fard. BriJJon a-v. VI. 167. Brown and White Gull. Br. 



tab. 15. Z00L II. 422. 



Pescrip. rx^HESE birds vary much in their fize; one 

 X we examined weighed three pounds kvm 

 ounces : the length was two feet two inches : the 

 breadth five feet fix : others again did not weigh 

 two pounds and a half: the irides are dufky : the 

 bill black, and near three inches long. The whole 

 plumage of the head and body, above and below, 

 is a mixture of white, afh color, and brown: 

 the laft color occupies the middle of each fea- 

 ther; and in fome birds is pale, in others dark : 

 the quil-feathers black : the lower part of the tail 

 is mottled with black and white •, towards the end 

 is a brown black bar, and the tips are white : the 

 legs are of a dirty white. 



Some have fuppofed this to be the young of the 



preceding 



