542 BLACK HEAD GULL. Class II. 



on his death, they never fail to (hi ft their quarters 

 for a certain time. 



Whitelock^ in his annate, mentions a piece of 

 ground near Port/mouth, which produced to the 

 owner forty pounds a year by the fale of Pewits^ 

 or this fpecies of gull. Theft are the See-gulles that 

 in old times were admitted to the noblemens ta- 

 bles*. 



The notes of thefe gulls diftinguifh them from 

 Descrip. any others ; being like a hoarfe laugh. Their weight 

 is about ten ounces : their length fifteen inches > 

 their breadth thirty-feven : their irides are of a 

 bright hazel : the edges of the eye-lids of a fine 

 fcarlet ; and on each, above and below, is a fpot 

 of white feathers. Their bills and legs are of a 

 fanguine red : the heads and throats black or 

 dufky : the neck, and all the under fide of the bo- 

 dy, and the tail, a pure white : back and wings afh 

 colored : tip, and exterior edge of the firft quil- fea- 

 ther black ; the reft of that feather white ; the 

 next to that tipt with black, and marked with the 

 fame on the inner web. 



A Variety. -^ a Grande Mouette blanche. WiL om. 348. Rati Jyn. av. 

 Belon. 170. Larus canus. Scopcli, No. 104.. 



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HIS was taken in a trap near my houfe, Ja- 

 nuary 25th, 1772, and feemed only a varie- 



* Vide Appendix. 



