88 COMMON GULL. 



with white at the tips till the second year, all but 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 bluej claws, black. 



