GULL, 373 



dible an orange fpot : irides ftraw-colour : edges of the eye-lids 

 red : head, neck, and tail, white : back and wing coverts afh- 

 coloured : the upper part of the five firft quills black, marked 

 with a white fpot near the ends * : legs pale flefh-colour. 



The young are afh-coloured, fpotted with brown f. 



The Herring Gull is common in this kingdom, and frequents the Place and 

 fame places as the black-lacked. Said to make a neltof dead grafs, Manners. 

 and lay three dirty white eggs, fpotted with black. It feeds on 

 fijh, and is a great enemy to the Herrings, from whence the name_; 

 is a conftant attendant on the nets, and lb bold as to feize its prey 

 before the fiihermen's faces £. Is found in moft of the northern 

 parts of Europe, as well as about the Cafviau and Black Seas, and 

 the rivers which fall into them : alfo about the great lakes of 

 Sibiria. Found likewife in Iceland, Greenland, and Hudfon's Bay. 

 In winter migrates fouth, being found in Jamaica. Said to 

 breed on fome of the iilands on the coaft of South Carolina [|. 



* In BriJ/bn the quills are grey brown ; the two firft have a white fpot near 

 the tips, and the ends black ; the tips of the two next white; the two following 

 have brown ends ; and the tips of all the reft white. 



t B f - Zool. — The Moueite grife, Brif. vi. p. 171. feems a young bird : it is 

 twenty inches long. The upper parts grey, the under white : crown grey : 

 prime quills and tail grey, margined with rufous : the outer tail feathers white 

 a great way on the inner webs. We have fuch a one in our pofleffion, differing 

 only in having the fcapulars of a fine pale blue grey. 



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