GULL. 



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Red-legged Gull, Ar3. Zool. p. 533. E. 



ENGTH fourteen inches: breadth two feet eleven inches: 

 weight feven ounces. Bill red : eye-lids fcarlet : head and 

 throat moufe-colour, fpotted with white : neck and belly white : 

 back and fcapulars alh-colour : wing coverts dufky brown, edged 

 with dirty white : the exterior fides, and part of the interior of 

 the firft four quills, black : the tail confifts of twelve white fea- 

 thers -, the ten middle ones tipped with black, near an inch broad ; 

 the outer ones plain : legs red. 



This was killed on the banks of the EJk, at Netbcrby, the feat 

 of Sir James Graham*. It anfwers alfo to the red-legged Gull 

 of the Arcl. Zool. which has been fhot in Anglefea. A fpecimen 

 of it has likewife been fent from Kamtfcbatka* 



1 1. 

 BROWN- 

 HEADED G. 



Description. 



Place* 



Larus atrkilla, Lin. Sjij?. i. p. 225. 8. — N. C. Petr. xv. p. 478. t. 22. fig. 2. 



(a young bird.) 

 La Mouette rieufe, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 192. 13. pi. 18. fig. 1. — Buf. Oif. viii. 



P« 433- 

 Larus major cinereus Baltneri, Rail Syn. p. 129. 8. 

 Baltner's great afh-coloured Sea-Mew, Will. Orn. p. 346. pi. 6j. 

 Laughing Gull, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 89. — Aril. Zool. N° 454. 



Lev. Muf. 



12. 



4- LAUGHING' 

 G. 



'"THIS is rather bigger than the black-beaded Gull: length 

 eighteen inches : breadth three feet f. It differs from that 

 bird only in the legs, which are black inftead of red. 



* Communicated by Dr. Heyjham. 

 IO 



f Catejly fays it weighs eight ounces. 



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Description* 



