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LARUS 2. Medius fubcinereus ad oculos 



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The large grey Sea-Gull 



This bird is about the fize of a common duck, and of a bright grey colour, but 

 black about the eyes : it is frequent about the harbours of Port-Royal and King- 

 in, where it meets with a great variety of all forts of fifh, which is its conftant 



food 



LARUS 3. Medius fubfufc 





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The large dark Sea- Gull 







This bird is rather larger than the foregoing, and keeps generally in 



flocks about the harbours and keys of J 



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L A R US 4. Sub fit feus major ; vert ice nigro, ventre at 



Bido. reclricibus 



edits longif- f The large Sea-Gull, with 



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irus reclricibus intermediis longijjim 



Nat. 

 The Arclic Bird of Edwards, 148, 9 



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the middle tail fea 

 thers longer than the 

 reft. 



his bird is about the fize of the grey Sea-Gull, and very common in the feas 



to the north of Bermudas, 

 failors call it a Shear-water 

 dom feen to the fouthward 



here I obferved it in my voyage from J 



and obfi 



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imaica. The 

 thern feas; but it is fel- 







STERNA 1. Minor fubnigra uropigio & 







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quefufco fafc 



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Mother Kerfs Chick 

 the fmaller PetterilL c 



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Swallow, with 

 a-crofs the wing 



, or Sea- 

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This bird is fome what larger than the common fwallow, which it refembles greatly, 



forked and pretty broad, and the 



both in fize and 



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tail is a 



body furrounded with 



ftern fea 



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g, about the rump. They 



ally appear with a freih 



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fwim on the furface of the waves in fuch weather 



re common in the 

 of wind ; for they feed on fuch 



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STERNA 2. Major fufca humile 



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The larger dark PetterilL or Shear 



water, 



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This bird is obferved in all parts of the fea ; it is rather fmaller than a pig 





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and flies fo clofe to the furface of the water, that it fre 



of 



a dark or blackim 



quently lies hid between the waves for a confiderable time 





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STERNA 3. Media, dorfifufco, ventre uro-\ The white-faced Shear-wa 



pigio & front e albidis 



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This bird is rather fmaller than the foregoing, and not fo common : I obferved 



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the latitude of 36, in my voyage from Jamaica. 





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LCYON 1. Media alba^retlricibus 



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The Tropic Bird of Edwards, 149. and 

 The Tropic Birdof Cat, app. 1. 14. 





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