sr- 



GULL. 



18. Larus trida&ylus, Lin. Syff. i. p. 224.. 2.— Faun. Suee. N° \i-j.-Muller, 



TARROCK G. N „ i6l / 



La Mouette cendree tachetee, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 185. pi. 17. fig. 2. — Buf. 



Oif. viii. p. 424. — PL Enl. 387. 

 Tarrock, Rati Syn. p. 128. A. 4. — Will. Orn. p. 346. pi. 68. — Br. Zool. ii. 



N° 251.— Artt. Zool. p. 533. D. 



Lev. Miif. 



Description. T ENGTH fourteen inches : breadth thirty-fix : weight feven 

 ounces. Bill fhort, thick, and black : head, neck, and under 

 parts, white : near each ear, and under the throat, a black fpot: 

 at the hind part of the neck a crefcent of black : the back and 

 fcapulars blueifh grey : the wing coverts dufky, edged with grey ; 

 fome of the larger wholly grey : the exterior fides and ends of 

 ■the firft four quills black ; tips of the two next black ; all the 

 reft white : the ten middle feathers of the tail white, tipped with 

 black ; the two outermoft wholly white : legs dufky a(h-colour : 

 in lieu of the back toe it has only a protuberance. 

 Place and This breeds in Scotland with the Kittiwake, and inhabits other 



parts of northern Europe, quite to Iceland and Spitzbergen, the 

 Baltic, and White Sea, as alfo Kamtfcbatka. Is common in Green- 

 land in fummer : comes in fpring, and frequents the fea fhores : 

 builds in the rocky crags of the bays : in June lays two eggs, of 

 a greenifti afti-colour, fpotted with brown: retires from -the 

 fhores in autumn. Is obferved frequently to attend the whales and 

 Jeals, for the fake of the Ji/h which the laft drive before them into 

 the (hallows, when thefe birds dart into the water fuddenly, and 

 make them their prey. Are very noify birds, efpecially during the 

 time of incubation. Swim well, and fly equally, and for a long 



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