490 



NATATORES. LARUS. 



GULL. 



occupying the tips of the feathers. Greater wing-co- 

 verts grey. Quills having their outer webs and tips 

 black, their inner ones white. Outer ridge of the wings 

 white. Base of the bill grey, tinged with flesh-red, the 

 point darker. Feet and toes yellowish-grey. 

 After the autumnal moult the head becomes white, streak- 

 ed with grey, and the spots before each eye, and upon 

 the ear-coverts a deep clove-brown. The mantle ac- 

 quires the pearl-grey tint ; but the wing-coverts conti- 

 nue to be varied with brown and yellowish-white. The 

 tail also retains the dark bar at its tip. 



COMMON GULL. 



LARUS CANUS, Linn. 

 PLATE XCIII. 



Larus canus, Linn. Syst. 1. 224. 3 Gmel. Syst. 1. 596. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 815. sp. 9 Steph. Shaw's Zool. 13. 198 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 140. 



No. 228. Faun. Amer. Boreal. 2. 420. No. 185. 

 Larus cinereus minor, Rail Syn. 127. A. 3. Will. 262. t. 76. 

 Gavia cinerea, Briss. Orn. 6. 175. 8. t. 16. f. 1. 

 Mouette a pieds bleus, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 771. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 



1. 519. 



Sturm-meve, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 475. 

 Common Gull, Br. Zool. 2. 538. No. 249 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 458 



Wilt. (Angl.) 345. t. 76 __ Lath. Syn. 6. 378. 8 Lewies Br. Birds, 6. 



pi. 215 __ Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Sup. Shaw's Zool 13. 198. 

 Rennie's Mont. Orn. Diet. 234. 



Adult in 

 Summer 

 plumage. 



( Common Gull, Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, p. t. 216. 

 Tumfe 1 Mouette ^ P ieds bleus > ou Grand Mouette cendre'e, Buff. Ois. 8. 428 



Larus hybernus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 596. 



Gavia hyberna, Briss. 6. 189. 12. 



Larus fuscus, seu hybernus, Rail Syn. 130. A. 14 Will 266. t. 66. 



La Mouette d'Hiver, Buff. Ois. 8. 437. 



Winter Mew, or Coddy-moddy, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 537. No. 248 Will. 

 (Angl.) 350. t. QQ. Albinos Birds, 2. pi. 87 Lath. Syn. 6. 384. 13. 

 Lewirfs Br. Birds, 6. pi, 210 Mont. Orn. Diet, and Sup. 



Young after 

 first Moult. 



PROVINCIAL Sea-Mall, Sea-Mew. 



IN dimensions, the Common Gull rather exceeds the pre- 

 ceding species, being about sixteen inches long, whereas the 



