Sjj COMMON GULL. Class II. 



with white-, the firfl quil-feather is black-, the fuc- 

 ceeding are" tipt with white: the tail is white, crof- 

 fed near the end with a black bar j the legs of a 

 dirty bluifh white. 



This kind frequents, during winter, the moid: 

 meadows in the inland parts of England, remote 

 from the fea. The gelatinous fubflance, known 

 by the name of Star Shot, or Star Getty, owes its 

 orimn to this bird, or fome of the kind; being no- 

 thing but the half digelled remains of earth-worms, 

 on which thefe birds feed, and often difcharge 

 from their ftomachs* . 



]Jnnatt5 % p. 224. makes this fpecies fynonymous 

 with the Larus tridatlylus or Tarrock-, but as we 

 have had opportunity of examining feveral of 

 each fpecies, and find in all thofe ftrong diftinc- 

 tions remarked in our defcriptions, we mud decline 

 affenting to the opinion of that eminent naturalift. 



tifl Com- Galedor, Crocala, Galetra. La Mouette cendree. Briffbn 



MOW, Aldr - a '~ J ' 1IL 34- «*■ VL *75- iah - l6 -f l S- "• 



Common Sea Mall. Wil. cm. Gabbiano ffiinore. Zinan. 1 15. 



j^j. Larus canus. Lin. fyjl. 224. 



Common Sea Mall, or Mew.. Br. Z00L 142. Scofcli, No. 

 Rait jyn. ay. 127. 1 04. 



THIS is the moil numerous of the genus. It 

 breeds on the ledges of the cliffs that im- 



* yid<2 Mortens Nat, E'tjl\ Ncrthamft. p, 353. 



pend 



