372 GULL, 



thinly marked with dufky fpots. It is alio common on moft of 

 the northern coafts of Europe : frequents Greenland; but chiefly 

 inhabits the diftant rocks. Lays three eggs in May, placing 

 them on the heaps of dung which the birds leave there from 

 time to time. Cackles like a Goofe. Said to attack other birds,, 

 and to be particularly an enemy to the Eider Duck * •, though 

 the moft general food is fijh. Common alfo in America, as low 

 as South Carolina, where it is called the Old Wife f. 



I have feen this from the Cape of Good Hope ; but it 

 meafured only twenty-two inches : the bill as ufual : irides 

 hazel : back olive-colour. It is faid to breed in the bays of that 

 promontory, efpecially on the rocks and fmall ifles in Falfe Bay. 

 The young fpotted with brown. Parkinfon likewife met with it. 

 off" the coaft of New Holland; the length not mentioned, but 

 defcribes it as having a high yellow beak, a fpot of fcarlet on the 

 gibbous part : corner of the mouth, and irides, bright fcarlet :. 

 legs greenifh yellow £. 



Larus fufcus, Lin. Sjjl. i. p. 225. 7. — Faun. Suec. N° 154. — Scop. Ann. i. 

 +- HERRING G. N° 107.— Brun. N° 142 — Mutter, N° i6$.—Georgi Reife, ?. 171.— 



Frifch. pi. 218. 

 Le Goiland gris, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 162. 3. 



■ a manteau gris-brun, ou le Bourgmeftre, Buf. Oif. vlii. p. 418. 



Herring Gull, Raii Sjn. p. 127. A. 2. — Will. Orn. p. 345. — Sloar.e Jam. ii». 

 p. 322.— Br. Zool. ii. N° 246. pi. 88. — JnS. Zeol. N a 452. 

 Le-j. Muf. 



Description.. T ENGTH twenty-three inches: breadth fifty-two: weight 

 thirty ounces, or more. Bill yellow ; on the lower man- 



* Faun. Growl. f Ara. Zeal. \ See Voy. p. 144. 



dible 



