350 



G U 



L. 



rivers, in the winter and fpring, at low tides, picking up the va- 

 rious worms and fmall fijh left by the tides; and will often fol- 

 low the -plough in the fields contiguous, for the fake of worms and 

 infefts which are turned up, particularly the cockchafer, or dor~ 

 leetle, in its larveftate, which it joins with the Rooks in devouring 

 moll greedily. 



9- 

 +• BLACK- 

 HEADED G. 



Description. 



Place and 



Manners. 



Larus ridibundus, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. 225. 9. 



— cinereus, Scop. Ann. i. N° 105? 



La Mouette rieufe, a pattes rouges, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 196. 14. — Bvf. Oif. viil. 



P- 43 3 '—PI- Enl- 97°- 

 Erown-headed Gull, Albin, ii. pi. 86. 

 Pewit, Black-cap, or Sea-Crow, Rail Syn. p. 12R. A. 5. — Will. Orn. p. 347. 



pi. 66. — Br. Zool. ii. N° 252. — Aril. Zool. N° 455.— Flor. Scot. pi. 5. 



fig. 1. 



Lev. Mvf. 



weight ten. 



E N G T H fifteen inches : breadth three feet 

 ounces. Bill rather (lender, and of a blood red : eye-lids 

 red : irides hazel : the head and throat dufky brown ; in old 

 birds black: on each eye-lid a fmall white fpot : back and wings 

 afh-colour : the neck, all the under parts,, and tail, white : the 

 ten firft quills white, margined, and more or lefs tipped, with 

 black ; the others afh-colour, with white ends : legs the colour 

 of the bill : claws black. 



The Black- cap, or Pewit Gull, as it is by fome called, breeds 

 on the fhores of fome of our rivers, but full as often in the in- 

 land fens of Lincclnjlolre, CambridgeJJjire, and other parts of Eng- 

 land. They make the neft on the ground, with rufhes, dead 

 grafs, and fuch like i and lay three eggs, of a greenifh brown, 



marked 



