Adult in 
Summer 
plumage. 
Winter 
plumage. 
Young after 
first_Moult. 
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, Raii Syn. 127. A. 3.—Will. 262. t. 76. 
Gavia cinerea, Briss. Orn. 6. 175. 8. t. 16. f. 1. 
Mouette a pieds bleus, Zemm. 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.— 
Wil. (Angl.) 345. t. 76.—Lath. Syn. 6. 378. 8.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 6. 
pl. 215.— Mont. Ornith. Dict. and Sup.—Shaw’s Zool. 13. 198. 
Gull, Rennie’s Mont. Orn. Dict. 234. 
Common Gull, Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826, p. t- 216. 
Mouette a pieds bleus, ou Grand Mouette cendrée, Buff: Ois. 8. 428.— 
Id. Pl. Enl. 977. 
Larus hybernus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 596. 
Gavia hyberna, Briss. 6. 189. 12. 
Larus fuscus, seu hybernus, Raii Syn. 130. A. 14.—Wiil. 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. 66.—Albin’s Birds, 2. pl. 87.—Lath. Syn. 6. 384. 13.— 
Lewin’s Br. Birds, 6. pl. 210.—Mont. Orn. Dict. and Sup. 
Provincrat—Sea-Mall, Sea-Mew. 
In dimensions, the Common Gull rather exceeds the pre- 
ceding species, being about sixteen inches long, whereas the 
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