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COMMON GULL. 
with white at the tips till the second year, all hut the first 
being tipped with brown: secondaries and tertiaries, brownish 
grey, the feathers edged with paler yellowish brown and white. 
The tail white, with a broad dusky black bar on the outer 
half to the end, the bar continued through the second year, 
the extreme tip greyish white, namely, all but the outside 
feather on each side, which has the outer web white with the 
least portion black; upper tail coverts, dull white; under tail 
coverts, white. Legs and toes, dull greyish white, with a tinge 
of dull yellowish red, the joints pale blue; claws, black. 
