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Bt. ZobI. ii. N°244.i— Catharaflacepphus. Strandhoegj 5r««»/f^, N° I26.--Le .5^^ Bi,ACk-TOE»s 

 Labbe, ou Stercoraire, De Buffon, y\\\. 441. tab. 34. — PL Enl. 99K' — ia- 

 tham iii. — Lev. Mxjs. 



With a bill refembling the former : head and neck of a dirty 

 white, marked with dufky fpots : back, fcapulars, coverts of 

 wings, and tail, blacky prettily edged with pale ruft : breaft and belly 

 white, crofled with numerous dufl<y and yellowilh lines : the fides 

 and vent barred croflways with black and white : tail black, tipt 

 with white ; the exterior webs of the outmoft, fpotted with ruft j the 

 two middle feathers are near an inch longer than the others. Thefe 

 birds vary into lighter and darker colors ; but the color of the toes 

 are fpeciiic marks : the legs are of a blueifh lead-color ; the toes and 

 webs have their lower parts of a deep black. Weight eleven ounces. 

 Length fifteen inches. Extent thirty-nine. 



lxi\\dh\xs,'m America, the coz&o{ Newfoundiand?indiHudfon''s Bay : is Fi.ace. 



hated by the natives, who have a notion that the birds are companions 

 to the detefted EJkimaux. I cannot, in Europe, trace it higher than 

 Great Britain and -Denmark ; yet it has been ftiot, in the Atlantic ocean, 

 as near to the line as north lat. 8, weft long. 2a. it. 



A. Skua, Br. Ztol. li. N* 243. — Catharafta Skua, BruHmch, N' iz^.^—Mulltr, N« i5f. 

 Le Goeland brun, De Buffon, viii. 408. — Latham, iii. —Lev. Mus. 



g^ With a ftrongfharp black bill and cere : head, back, and coverts 



of the wings, brown and ruft-colored t primaries and fecondaries 



dulky J the fhafts of the primaries white : on the fecpndaries a great 



3 Y 2 whitf 



