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pacious bird seldom ventures near its quarters. 

 The natives of Foula on this account levy a fine 

 on any person who destroys one : they deny 

 that it ever injures their flocks or poultry, but 

 imagine it preys on the dung of the Arctic, and 

 other larger gulls, which it persecutes till they 

 mute for fear. ' 



Mr. Ray and Mr. Smith^ suppose this to be 

 the Cornish Gannet ; but in our account of that 

 bird we shall shew that it is a different species. 

 Mr. Macauly\ mentions a gull that makes great 

 havoke among the eggs and sea-fowl oi St. 

 Kilda ; it is there called Tuliac : his description 

 suits that of the Herring Gull; but we suspect 

 he confounds these two kinds, and has trans- 

 ferred the. manners of this species to the latter. 



Linnceus involves two species in the article 

 Larus Qatar actes ; this, and the arctic bird of 

 Mr. Edwards, birds of very different characters, 



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