3§4 G U L L. 



We have been informed that the male and female, both of this 

 and the former, are alike in an adult ftate ; therefore that men- 

 tioned by Brijfon as the female, having a cinereous head, and the 

 forehead and throat fpotted with white ; as alfo that in the Pe- 

 terfhurgh Tranfailions, of a lefs fize, with the head fpotted black 

 and white, are without doubt young birds. 

 Place and This is found in Ruffia, on the river Don, particularly about 



Manners. 'TJchercaJk. The note refembles a coarfe laugh, whence the name 

 of the bird. Is met with alfo in more parts than one in the con- 

 tinent of America ; and is very numerous in the Bahama IJlands : 

 we have likewife feen it from Cayenne. 



We are informed that a Gull with a black head, and dufky 

 yellow irides, frequents Hudfons Bay ; it comes there in May, 

 and makes the neft in the pine-trees: lays four lead-coloured 

 eggs, and departs fouth in September. It feeds on fifh and worms; 

 and is called by the natives, Akeefe-keeajk *. 



13. La Mouette d'Hyver, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 189. \z.—Buf. Oif. viii. p. 437. 



*- WINTER G. Guaca-guacu, Rail Sjn. p. 130. 12.— Will. Orn. p. 352. 



Winter-Mew, or Coddy-Moddy, Rati Syn. p. 130. A. 14. — Will. Orn. 

 p. 350. pi. 66. — Br. Zool. ii. N° 248. pi. 86. — Albin, ii. pi. 87. 

 Lev. Muf. 



Discription. § t 



ENGTH eighteen inches: breadth three feet "fix inches: 

 weight leventeen ounces. Bill (lender, two inches long ; of 

 an horn-colour, with a black tip, and bent at the end : irides 

 hazel : the top of the head, hind part, and fides of the neck, white, 

 marked with oblong dufky fpots : back afh-colour : fcapulars 

 and wing coverts the fame, marked with dufky brown : the fore- 

 head, chin, throat, breaft, under parts, and rump, white: the firft 



* Mr. Hutcbins. 



quill 



