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the two next black, but the fhafts and middle part white ; the 

 tips of the next two white, beneath a black bar : the reft, as well 

 as the fecondaries, afli-colour: in other things refembling the 

 Mack-headed Gull. 



*In my own collection is one which anfwers in all things to the 

 Mack-beaded Gull, except in the feathers of the head being white, 

 with here and there a dufky fhade, and a large fpot of the fame 

 on the ears ; but on raifing up the feathers of the head, one im- 

 mediately obferves that they are only tipped with white, it being 

 merely a young bird of the firft year * ; as this fpecies does not 

 gain the full black head till the fecond or third moult. 



io. La petite Mouette grife, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 173. 7. 



Var. A. 

 Description. ENGTH fifteen inches. Bill one inch and three quarters 



long, of an orange-colour, with a black tip : irides whitifh : 

 the top of the head, neck, back, and rump, mixed grey and white : 

 fides of the head, and all the under part, white : the wing co- 

 verts and lefier quills as the back : the greater coverts fartheft 

 from the body dufky, edged with white: greater quills dufky, 

 tipped with white : tail dufky; the middle feathers tipped with 

 white j the others marked with white on the inner webs : legs 

 orange-colour : claws black. 



We fufpect this to be no other than the black-cap Gull in an 

 imperfect ftate of plumage. 



* This lad comes neareft the cinerariut of Linnauit 



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