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Larus argentatus, Brun. N° 149. 

 Silvery Gull, Ar£l. Zool. p. 533. C. 



O I Z E of the Herring Gull. Bill yellow, with an orange fpot : 

 head and neck white; ftreaked downwards with cinereous 

 lines : back and under parts of the body as in the Glaucous Gull : 

 lower part of the primaries greyifh ; upper black ; tips white. 



Inhabits Norway. In the Britijh Mufeum is one very much 

 like the above : length near fixteen inches : bill one inch and a 

 half long : quills marked as in the other ; but the two firft have 

 the ends tipped with white for near an inch, the others only juft 

 a fpot ; but only fix of the prime quills had the ends black : the 

 bill and legs were pale ; but as this bird had been in fpirits fome 

 time, nothing certain could be faid about them. 



SILVERY G. 



Description- 



Larus nsvius, Lin. Syft. i. p. 225. 5. 6- 



Larus maculatus, Brun. N° 146. (a young bird ?) +• WAGEL G. 



Larus varius, Brun. N° 150. 

 Le Goiland vane, ou le Grifard, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 167. 5. pi. 15. — Buf. 



Oif. viii. p. 413. pi. 33. — PL Enl. 266. 

 Wagel, Burgo-Mafter of Groenland, great Grey Gull, Rail Sjn. p. 130. 



A. 13. — Will. Orn. p. 349. pi. 66. 

 Wagel, Br. Zool. ii. N" 247. K.—ArB. Zool. N* 453. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Mu/. 



T^HIS is a large fpecies, being near two feet in length, and in Description." 



breadth about five*: weight near three pounds. The bill 

 is black; two inches and a half long : irides dufky : the whole 



• Sometimes as far as five feet fix inches. 

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