Manners. 



374- GULL. 



4. Larus glaucus, Brun. N° 148. — Mutter, N° 169. — Faun. Groinl. N° 64. 



4- GLAUCOUS Le Goiland cendre, £># Ora. vi. p. 160. 2.— PI. Enl. 253. 



Le Gceland a manteau gris, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 406. pi. 32. 

 Glaucous Gull, Aril. Zool. p. 532. B. 



Description. T AR GER than the Herring Gull. Bill yellow ; near the end 

 an orange fpot : head and under part of the body white : 

 back and wings of a fine hoary grey ; primaries darkeft, tipped 

 with white * : legs of a pale fulvous hue. 

 Place and Inhabits Norway, Lapmark, Greenland, and. Spitzbergen. Called 



by the Butch, Burgmeifter, being matter of all other fea-fowl. 

 Builds its neft high on the cliffs. Preys on dead Whales : attends 

 the Walrujfes, in order to feed on their dung ; and will deftroy 

 and eat the young of the Razor-bills. Is almoft continually on 

 the wing. Makes a hoarfe noife like a Raven. Feeds alfo on 

 fijh, and does not defpife the berries of the black-berried heath. 

 Dr. Forfter mentioned to me that he met with this fpecies both 

 at 'Terra del Fne?o and New Zealand. I have alfo received it 

 from Hudfon's Bay, twenty-three inches in length, and four feet 

 in breadth; but this differed from the defcription of Brijjon, in 

 having fix of the quills black at the ends ; near the tip of the 

 outer one is a large fpot of white ; on the fecond a fmaller white 

 fpot on the inner web, near the tip, and the tip itfelf white; 

 the four next only white at the tips : the fecond quills are white 

 at the ends : the legs of a brownifh red : claws black. 



* In Brijbn's defcription, only the firft four have the ends black ; all of thefe 

 are tipped with white ; but the outer one has a black fpot on the white. 



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