Class II, HERRING GULL. 381 



Arctic bird, had lost those long feathers, so he 

 bas omitted them in the print. 

 j.^.JLinnaus has separated this from its mate, his 

 Larus parasiticus, and made it a synonym to his 

 L. Cataractes, a bird as different from this as 

 any other of the whole genus.* 



Larus fuscus. L. albus, dorso vi. l62. Hist, d'ois. viii. 5. Herring. 



fusco, pedibus flavis. Lath. 418. 



Ind. orn. 815. id. Syn. vi. Larus fuscus. Gm. Lin. 5QQ. 



372- Faun. Suec. sp. 154. 



Burgermeister. Martin's Spitz- Danis Silde-Maage. Islandis 



herg. 84. Veydebjalla. Brunnich, 142. 



Herring Gull. JVil. orn. 345. Grosse Staff Moeur. Frisch, 



Larus cinereus maximus. Rail ii. 218. 



Syn. av. 127. Br. Zool. 141. Arct. Zool. ii. 



Le Goiland gris. Brisson av. 242. 



XHIS gull weighs upwards of thirty ounces; Descrip- 

 the length is twenty-three inches; its breadth 

 fifty-two. The bill yellow, and the lower man- 

 dible marked with an orange colored spot ; the 

 irides straw color; the edges of the eyelids red; 

 the head, neck, and tail white ; the back, and 

 coverts of the wings ash colored ; the upper 

 part of the five first quil feathers are black, 

 marked with a white spot near their end ; the 

 legs are of a pale flesh color. These birds breed 



* This error has been continued by Gmelin. Ed. 



