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190 BLACK HEADED GULL. Class II. 



his death, they never fail to shift their quarters 

 for a certain time. Whitelock, in his annals, 

 mentions a piece of ground near Portsmouth, 

 which produced to the owner forty pounds a 

 year by the sale of Pewits, or this species of 

 gull. These are the See-gulles that in old times 

 were admitted to the noblemen's tables.* 



The notes of these gulls distinguish them 

 from any others, being like a hoarse laugh. 

 Descrip- Their weight is about ten ounces; their length 

 fifteen inches ; their breadth thirty-seven ; their 

 irides are of a bright hazel; the edges of the 

 eye-lids of a fine scarlet, and on each, above 

 and below, is a spot of white feathers. Their 

 bills and legs are of a sanguine red ; the heads 

 and throats black or dusky ; the neck, and all 

 the under side of the body, and the tail, a pure 

 white; the back and wings ash colored; the 

 tip, and exterior edge of the first quil feather 

 black, the rest of that feather white ; the next 

 to that tipt with black, and marked with the 

 same on the inner web. 



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