GULL. 381 



marked with red brown blotches. After the breeding-feafon they 

 again difperfe to the Jea-coafts. Breed alfo in Northumberland, 

 and Scotland; and found throughout RuJJia and Sibiria, as far as 

 Kamtfchatka, but not farther to the north. Are feen through- 

 out the winter at Aleppo, in great numbers, and fo tame, that 

 the women are faid to call them from the terraces of their houfes, 

 throwing up pieces of bread, which thefe birds catch in the air *. 

 Inhabit North America, coming into New England in May, and 

 departing in Anguft\. The young birds, in the neighbourhood of 

 the Thames, are thought good eating, and are called the Red-legs % 

 but the Black-caps are much lefs efteemed, being rank, as is in 

 general the cafe with moil old birds. 



Larus cinerarius, Lin. Syft. I. p. 224. 4. 10. 



can us, Scop. Ann. i. N° 106. +■ RED- 



LFCGED G 

 La petite Mouette cendiee, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 178. 9. pi. 17. fig. I. — Bit/.. 



Oif. viii. p. 431. — PL Enl. 969. 

 Larus albus major, Rati Sjn. p. 129. 9. 

 Greater white Gull of Bellonins? Will. Orn. p. 348. — Br. Zool. ii. p. 542- 



<var. . 



r F H I S anfwers in mod things to the black-headed Gull, of Description* 



which it appears to be a variety, or more probably the young 

 ilrd. The fore part of the head is white : the fpace round the 

 eyes dufky : from the corner of each eye a broad dufky bar, fur^ 

 rounding the hind part of the head ; behind that another, reach- 

 ing from ear to ear : the ends and exterior edges of the three 

 firft quill feathers are black 3 the ends and interior fides only of 



* BuJ. Ahp. p. 7 o, f Aril. Zool. 



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