TERN. 35* 



Er.Muf. „ *' 



Var. A. 



QIZE of the Herring Gull: length twenty-one inches. Bill Description-. 



ftout, three inches and a half long, and of a deep red: the top 

 of the head, and fides, taking in the eyes, are black fpotted with 

 white : the reft of the head, neck, and under parts, white : back 

 hoary: quills pale grey, with white fhafts: on the fcapulars a 

 few dufky fpots : tail fhort, and forked ; croffed with a few 

 dufky bars near the end j the wings exceed it in length by three 

 inches and a half: legs black. 



Inhabits Bombay. Called by the Indians, Talla. Piace. 



Br.Muf. ., '• 



J Var. B. 



T ENGTH nineteen or twenty inches. Bill three inches, Description. 



flout, and of a pale yellow : noftrils pervious : the crown of 

 the head black ; the feathers longilh, and forming a kind of 

 penfile creft at the nape-, the reft of the head, neck, and under 

 parts of the body, white : back and wings pale cinereous grey : 

 quills grey, with the ends dufky; the inner webs, half way from 

 the bafe, white : tail grey, forked ; the end half of the outer fea- 

 ther white : the fhafts of quills and tail white -, the laft is ex- 

 ceeded by the firft by an inch : legs black. 



Suppofed to inhabit China. We have alfo feen the fame, or Place. 



one greatly refembling, from the Friendly IJles in the South Seas, 

 Is alfo found at Hapaee, one of the Sandwich IJles. 



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