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Should this prove what Mr. Boys fufpects, it ought no longer to be: 
retained as a Tern, as it manifeftly belongs to the Gu// genus: it was: 
met with in the neighbouring fhores of Sandwich... 
HE general colour of the plumage in this bird is deep browns: 
but the under parts, the rump, and tips of the-leffer wing coverts 
are very pale brown, approaching to white: tail rather fhort, rounded: 
at the end: bill dirty orange, fwelling near the point, where it is. 
croffed with dufky or black: legs dufky: 
Inhabits New South Wales; where-is alfo found the Black-backed: 
Gull, or a fpecies fo-fimilar thereto, as not to merit defcription. 
Larus Pulo Condor, Muf. Carl/. fa/c. iv. t. 83. 
HE forehead: in this bird is afh colour; crown-the fame, with a 
mixture of white: the plumage on the upper parts rulty afh co- 
lour and brown mized ; beneath white :. bill, hind. head, nape, {hould-. 
ers, and claws, black: legs yellow.. 
Inhabits Pulo Condor... 
Larus Catarractes, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 818. 12-- 
Skua Gull, Gen. Syz. vi. pe 385- 14. 
WE fufpeé that this is the fpecies called at. St, Kilda, Fuilag *,. 
which 1s faid to be a large Gull, infefting the birds, by break- _ 
ing their eggs, and often. killing their young, and many of the old’ 
fowls. The inhabitants difcover the greateft rage at fecing or hear- 
ing of this cruel enemy, and. exert their whole addrefs to catch it; 
when they excel the Jvdians.in torturing it, they pluck oué its eyes, 
few the wings together, and fend it adrift; at other. times, they. extract. 
the meat out of the egg, on a fuppofition that the animal may fit till 
it pines away ; and for any one to eat the egg, would be accounted 
flagitious. 
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* Buchanans Trav. in the Weftern Iles, p. 139. 
