Class II. BLACK HEAD GULL. 



In lieu of the back toe. # it has only a fmall pro- 

 tuberance. 



This fpecies breeds on Priefthohne Ijle, alfo a- 

 mong the former in Scotland. I muft retract my 

 opinion of its being the young of that fpecies. 



541 



Cepphus Tumeri. Gefner a-v. 



2 49-. 

 Larus cinereus tertius. Aldr. 



a-v. III. 3^. 

 Pewit, or Black Cap, Sea 



Crow, Mire Crow. Wil. 



orn. 347. 

 Rail Jyn. a<v. 128. itin. 217. 

 Pewit. Phtt't hift. Staff. 231. 



Puit. Fuller's Brit. Worthies. 



318. 

 la Mouette rieufe a pattes 



rouges. Briffbn a*v.V\. ig6. 

 Gabbiano cinerizio col roftro, 



e col li piedi roffi. Zinan. 



Larus ridibundus. Lin. fyjl. 



225. 

 Br. Zool. 143. 



252. Black: 

 Head. 



TT^HESE birds breed in vaft numbers in the 

 A iflands of certain pools in the county of Staf- 

 ford-, and, as Dr. Fuller tells us, in another on the 

 EJfex mores ; alfo in the Fens of Lincoln/hire. They 

 are birds of paftage ^ refort there in the fpring ; and 

 after the breeding feafon difperfe to the fea coafts : 

 they make their neft on the ground, with rufhes, 

 dead grafs, and the like ; and lay three eggs of a 

 dirty olive color, marked with black. The young 

 were formerly highly efteemed, and numbers were 

 annually taken and fattened for the table. Plott 

 gives a marvellous account of their attachment to 

 the lord of the foil they inhabit; infomuch, that 



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