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are yellow ; the edges of the eyelids are orange > 

 the back and wings are black, all the rest white ; 

 the legs are pale flesh colour. 



The length is 29 inches, and weight 5lb. 



The female lays dark olive eggs, marked with 

 dusky spots, and quite black at the thicker end. 



!. FUSCUS. \ 



N^VIUS.j 



C. albus, dorsofusco, pedibus flams. Lath. 



The bill is yellow ; the angle of the lower man- 

 dible is orange ; irides are pale yellow ; edges of the 

 eye-lids red ; the back and wing-coverts Jbluish ash 

 colour, the rest white ; legs pale red. 



Weight SOoz. length 23 inches. 



WAGEL, OR BURGO-MASTER. 



The bill is black ; irides dark blue ; plumage ash 

 coloured, brown and white ; legs dirty white, some- 

 times blushed with red. 



These gulls are two or three years in arriving at 

 their full colour ; hence has arisen the different opi- 

 nions of authors : the latter we have no doubt is the 

 young of the herring gull. 



