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G L A O C O U S GULL. 



■white fpot : breaft" and belly of a rufty afh : tail brown, white at the 

 bafe : legs black and fcaly : claws black, (harp, ftrong, and hooked 

 like thole of a Kite. Length two feet. Extent four and a half.. 

 Weight three pounds. 

 Place. Inhabits Europe Very locally j only from Foula and Unji, two of the 



Schetland ifles, to the Feroe ifles, Norway, and as far as Iceland. Its 

 manners, fuch as its great courage, and fiercenefs in defending its 

 young, in driving away the eagle from its haunts, and, as is firmly 

 afTerted by Mr. Schroter, a furgeon in \:\\t Feroe ifles. Its preying on 

 the lefler water fowl, like a rapacious land bird, are fully defcribed 

 in the Britijh Zoology. They abound about Port Egmont, in the Falk- 

 land \^2inA%y and are therefore filled by navigators. Port Egmont Hens. 

 They have been obferved in many parts of the Pacific ocean, as low- 

 as lat. 2,^. 56 fouth, to theeaft* o? New Zeland ; and as high, in the 

 fame hemifphere, as to. 67. 15 f- The navigators found them in- 

 great plenty, in their breeding feafon, in the latter end o( December, 

 about Chrijimas Sound, in "Terra del Fuego, making their nefts in the 

 dry grafs. They have not been remarked in other parts of the globcj, 

 nearer than the Schetlands^ 



B. Glaucous, Lar'us Glaucirs, Brunnkh, li" 148. — Mullerf N° i6g. — Faun. G'roenl, 

 N" 64. — Latham, iii. 



/^ With a yellow bill, and orange fpot near the end : head and 

 lower part of the body white : back and wings of a fine hoary 

 grey ; primaries darkeft, and tipt with white : legs of a pale fulvous 

 hue. In Size fuperior to the Herring Gull. 

 Place. Inhabits Norway, Lapmark, Iceland, Greenland, and Spitzhergen, 



Is called by the Dutch, Burgermeifier, being the mafter of all other fea 

 fowl. It builds its neft high on the cliffs : preys on dead whales : 

 attends the Walrufes, in order to feed on their dung j and, as Frederic 



• Cosk^s Fcj, Hawk/worth'' s Coll. ii. zSj. f Forjier's Voy. i. logi 



Martens 



