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Larus marlnus, Z««. Sj//?. i. p. 225. 6.— Faun. Sum. N" 155 .— - Brun. N° 145. 2 « 



-JW6r,N..6 S . _ ' BACKED G. 



Le Goiland noir, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 158. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 405. pi. 31.— 



PI. Enl. 990. 

 Great black and white Gull, Rait Syn. p. 127. A. i.—Will. Orn. p. 344. 



pi. 67. — Albin, iii. pi. 94. 

 Black-backed Gull, Br. Zool. ii. N° z^z.—Flor. Scot. i. pi. 5. fig. 2.— 



Ara. Zool.N" 451. 



Lev. Muf. 



T ENGTH twenty-nine inches : breadth five feet nine inches: Description. 



weight near five pounds. The bill is very ftrong and thick, 

 and almoft four inches long ; the colour a pale yellow ; but the 

 lower mandible is marked with a red fpot, with a black one in 

 the middle : irides yellow : edges of the eye-lids orange : head, 

 neck, whole under fide, tail, and lower part of the back, white : 

 upper part of the back and wings black : quills tipped with 

 white : legs of a pale flefh-colour. 



Mr. Pennant obferves, that he has met with, on the coaft of 

 Anglefea, a bird that agrees in all refpefts with this, except in 

 fize ; in wanting the black fpot on the bill ; and in the colour of 

 the legs, which were of a bright yellow : the extent of the wings 

 only four feet five inches : length twenty-two inches : weight 

 half a pound ; and that the fame has been fhot at Bulftrode in 

 Buckinghamfloire. One of thefe, fhot on the Thames near me, 

 meafured full two feet in length. 



This fpecies inhabits feveral parts of England, and breeds on Place ani> 

 the higheft cliffs. The egg is blunt at each end ; of a dufky Manners. 

 olive-colour ; quite black at the greater end ; and the reft of it 



j B 2 thinly 



