GULL. 385 



quill is black ; the fix following more or lefs black at the ends ; 

 the others tipped with white : tail white, croffed with a bar of 

 black near the end : legs dirty blueilh" white. 



This is very common in England, and is obferved to be met Place and 

 with farther inland than any of the others. Mr. Pennant obferves, 

 that the gelatinous fubftance, known by the name of Jiar-Jhot, 

 or Jlar-jelly, owes its origin to this bird, or fomething of the kind ; 

 being nothing but the half-digefted remains of earth-worms, on 

 which thefe birds feed, and often difcharge from their ftomachs *. 



Larus catarraftes, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 226. 11. 14* 



Catharafta Skua, Brun. N° 125.— Muller, N° 167. "*" SKUA G » 



Le Goiland brun, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 165. 4. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 408. 

 Catarraftes, or Cornifli Gannet, Rati Syn. p. 128. A. 6. — Will. Orn. p. 348. 

 Catarratta of Aldrovand. Rail Syn. p. 129. 7 ? — Will. Orn. p. 349. pi. 67 ? 

 Brown Gull, Albin, ii. pi. 85. 



Skua Gull, Br. Zool. ii, N° 243. — ArSt. Zool. p. 531. A. 



Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of a Raven : length two feet : breadth four feet fix inches : Description. 



weight three pounds. The bill is an inch and three quarters 

 in length, and black ; it is much curved at the end, and coveredj 

 for three parts of its length, with a kind of black cere, at the end 

 of which the noftriis are placed, which are pervious : the plu- 

 mage on the upper parts of the head, neck, back, and wings, 

 is very deep brown, the feathers margined with ferruginous 



* Br. Zool. — Morton Northampt. p. 353. — In the courfe of my correfpondence 

 with the late Mr. J. Piatt of Oxford, I recoiled his having mentioned, that once 

 meeting with a lump of this Jlar-jelly, on examination he found the toes of a 

 Frog or Toad&\\\ adhering, and undiflblved; and from thence concluded it to be 

 the remains of one of thefe, having been fwallowed whole by fome bird, and 

 the indigestible parts brought up in the condition he found it. 



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