BLACK-BACKED GULL/ AND HERRING. 5^7 



LIV. GULL. Gen. Birds, LXXXVIIL 



£r, Zcol. ii. N° 242. — Larus tnarinus, Faxn. Suec. N° 15;- 

 Le Goeland a manteau noir, De B-rffon, viii. 405. — PL EnL 990, — Latham, iii. 

 — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



4;i. Bi.ACK- 



BACKEB. 



'With a ftrong pale yellow bill ; the lower mandible marked 

 with a black fpot, encircled with red : upper part of the back 

 and wings black j primaries tipt with white: the reft of the plu- 

 inage of a fnowy whitenefs : legs pale flefli-color. Weight fome- Size. 



times five pounds. Length twenty-nine inches. Extent five ^ttt. 

 nine. 



Inhabits northern Europe, as high as Iceland, Lapmark, and the White Place. 



Sea; Greenland, and the coaft of North America down to New 

 Tork and South Carolina, where they are called Old Wives. Is ob-^ 

 ferVedj in Greenland, to attack other birds, efpecially the Eider 

 Duck. The EJkimaux and Greenlanders make their garments of 

 the fldns of thefe, as well as other water fowl. This was a pradice, 

 in early times, with every people to whom manufaftui-es were un- 

 known, Non avium pluniie in iijum vejlis conferuntur * ? 



Br. Zool. ii. N° 246.— Larus fufcus, Faun. Suec. N° 154. ^r^^, Herriks, 



Le Goeland. a manteau gris brun, De Buffon, viii. ^lo.^-Latham, iii. 



—Lev. Mus. 



/^ With a yellow bill j lower mandible marked with a red fpot : 

 irides llraw-colored : head, neck, and tail, white : back and 

 coverts of wings afh-color : primaries dufliy, with a white fpot near 

 their ends : legs of a pale flefh-colorj vary to yellow. Weight about 

 thirty ounces. Length twenty-three inches. Extent four feet four. 



Inhabits the north of Europe, Iceland, and Greenland : even in the Place. 



Jaft country a common fpecies ; and continues there the whole year. 



• Seneca E/>t/l. Ep. xc, - 



9 Breeds 



