37 s G U L L. 



Afia and America, and off Cape Denbigh*. Met with by our 

 late voyagers at Aoonala/hkaf. Said likewife to inhabit Hud- 

 fon's Bay; but, if fo, it mult vary confiderably in fize : one de- 

 fcribed to us by Mr. Hutchins meafured tvventy-feven inches and 

 a half in length, and was five feet in breadth. The bill and legs 

 flefh-colour : irides ftraw-colour : the plumage of a beautiful 

 white, except a few of the tail coverts, which were barred with 

 dufky. This, he obferves, is fcarce along the coafts, but more 

 plenty in the ijlands and inland lakes, where it makes a flight nefb 

 on the ground, of dry grafs, and lays four white eggs. The 

 young are blackifh, and the old ones do not become perfectly 

 white under three years. 



8. Larus canus, Lin. SyJ}. i. p. 2^4. 3. — Faun. Suec. N° 153. — Hajfelq. Voy. 



1 COMMON G. p 2?2 _ 39 ._ 5w/> Ann , ;. N o , 04 ._j,. 8S . n° 141— Mullet*, N° 162. 



—Georgi Reife, p. 170. 

 La Mouette cendree, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 17;. 8. pi. 16. fig. 1. 

 La grande Mouette cendree, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 182. 10. pi. 16. fig. z.—Buf. 



Oif. viii. p. 428. — Pi. Enl. 977. 

 Common Sea Mall, or Mew, Rati Syn. p. 127. A. 3. — Will. Orn, p. 34;. 



pi. 76. 

 White web-footed Gull, Albin, ii. pi. 84. 



Common Gull, Br. Zool. ii. N° 249. pi. 89. fig. z.—ArB. Zeol.'N" 458* 



Lev. Mb/. 



Description. HP H I S is in length fixteen or feventeen inches: is thirty-fix 

 inches broad: and weighs one pound. The bill yellow : 





* Br. Zool. — A Gull fnow- white, with black along the upper fides of the 

 wings, found by our laft voyagers, in Nootka Sound. See Cook's lajl Voy. \\. 



P- 3> 2 - 



t Ellis Narr. p. 15. 252—267. 



irides. 



