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COMMON AND ARCTIC GULL. 



PiAci. Inhabits Spitzbergen and Greenland: alfo very frequent in the 



frozen fea between Afia and America -, and off cape Denbigh^ a little- 

 to the fouth of Bering's Streights. Keeps ufually far at fea j but when 

 it does alight, is very ftupid, and eafily killed. The young are fpotted: 

 with blac^,. and their bills are black. 



4.C8. Common. 5r. Zot/. li. N» 249.— -Larus canuj. Homaka. Mave. i^/w S trade, Fau*. 



Suec.'^" -i^l.^Latbamt'nu ' — Lev. Mus. 



(^, With a yellow bill : head, neck,, tail, and all the under fide of 

 the body, white : back and coverts of wings light grey : pri- 

 maries dufky j near their extremities a white fpot : legs dull white,, 

 tinged with green.. Length feventeen inches. Extent three feet. 

 Weight twelve ounces and a half. 



Inhabits as- high as Iceland; and is common about the Ruffian lakes» 

 Is frequent on the coaft of iV>w/(?a«iteif. 



Placi. 



, Ar-ctic. •^'■' ^'"^^ "•'^° z^s.-^Phipp/, 187.— Le Labbe a longue queue, D/ Buffon, viil« 



' * 445.— p/. £»/i762.— P/&. ?>«»/ Ixij. 421.— Xa;i«w»j iJL. —Lev. Mus,. 



O With a dufky bill, much hooked at the end : upper part cover- 

 ed with a thin cere : crown black : back, wings,, and tall, dufky ;. 

 neck, breaft, and belly,,white : tail cuneiform; two middle feathers- 

 near four inches longer than the reft. Female wholly brown ; under 

 fide lighteft. Length twenty-one inches. 

 ■m ^ , Inhabits, in America, Hudfon's Bay* -, all the north of Europe to 



Spitzbergen; frequent in Greenland, Feeds almqft entirely on fifh, 

 caught by other birds, which it perfecutes till they drop their prey, or 

 vomit for fear; when it catches their droppings before it falls into the 

 water. The Dutch call it, from a now exploded notion, that it lives 

 on the dung of fowl, the Stront-jagger. Extends along the arSiie 

 coaft to Kamtjchatka. Afcends the great rivers, the Ok, Jene/ei, and. 

 I-f»<?j above a hundred leagues inland.. 



* Pk'.Tran/. Ixii. 



