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9- 



•t- BLACK- 



HEADED G. 



Gbkus LXXXIX. gull. 



Black-headed Gull, Gen. Syn.Vi. p. 380. N° 9. 



Larus ridibundus, Sepf Vog. pi. in p. 153. M. and Fern. 



'X'HIS appears firft about Romney, on the coaft of Kent, abou!: 

 the 17th of J^pril, and departs the beginning of September. A 

 few appear again in the winter*. 



J5- 

 4- BLACK- 

 TOED G. 



Black-toed Gull, Gen. Syn, vi. p. 387. N" 15. 



'"PHE beginning of September laft, I was prefented with one of 

 thefe by Mr. Jackfon, which was ihot at Fieldplace, near 

 Horjham, in Stijfex. It differs from that defcribed in my Synopfis 

 in a few particulars. It is fixteen inches in length. The whole 

 plumage darker coloured, and mixed with ferruginous ; the quills 

 marked at the tips with the fame : breaft mottled with white : 

 the fhape of the tail a trifle rounded at the end : the quills, when 

 clofed, reach an inch beyond the tip of it f. 



+. TARROCK 

 G. 



Var. a. 



Tarrock Gull, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 393, N" 18. 



Received this variety, killed near Teingmouth, in the county of 

 Devon, November 1785 J. 



* Mr. Boys. 

 ^ f The tail in my fpecimen had but ten feathers ; that oi Brijfon contained 

 twelve : I therefore fufpeit my bird to have been deficient therein. 



X Mr. Martin, 



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