S I L V E R Y, &c. G U L L. 



Martens aflerts, will even deftroy and eat the young of the Razor-bills. 

 It alfo feeds on fifli ; and does not defpife the berries of the Empetrum 

 Nigrum. It is almoft continually on wing j and makes.a hoarfe noife'j, 

 like the Raven. 



533 



C. Silvery. Larus argentatus, Bruttmch, N° \i^ij.~— Latham, iiL 



{~^ With a white head and neck, flreaked downwards with cinere- 

 ous lines : back and under part of the body like the former 

 fpecies : lower part of the primaries greyifli ; upper black ; the tips 

 white : bill yellow, with an orange fpot. Size of the Herring Gull. 

 This and the former feem nearly. 

 Inhabits Norway, 



Pi. ACE. 



B. Tarrock, Br. Zool. ii. N° 251. — ^Larus tridaftylus, Paun.Suee. N° 157. — La Mouette- 

 tachetee, De Buffon, viii. ^z\.— Latham, iii. —Lev. Mus. 



/^ With a ftrong, thick, black bill : with white head, neck, breaft, 

 and belly : behind each ear a black fpot : on the hind part of" 

 the neck a black crefcent : back and fcapulars blueifh grey : tea 

 middle feathers of the tail white, tipt with black j outmoft quite 

 white : a protuberance inftead of the back toe. Size of the former. 



Inhsh'm Europe quite to Iceland and Sptzhergen; the Baltic &nd 

 White fea j and again ia.Kamtfchatka, 



Placs, 



E» Red-lecged-. 



f^ With blood-red bill and legs : head and' neck white, mottled 

 about the former : back and coverts of wings fine grey : lefler 

 coverts mottled : under fide of body and the tail white; the laft tipc 

 with black. Size of the Black-cap Gull. 



A bird of this fpecies was brought from Kamtfchatka. Another of 

 the fame kind has been ihot in Anglefey, 



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Placb, 



