393 



GULL. 



time together ; often obferved on portions of ice fwimming in 

 the fea. Both the flefh and eggs are efteemed by the Greenlan- 

 ders, and the fkins ufed as garments. 



T ENGTH nineteen inches. Bill two inches and a quarter 18. 



lone, colour black : head, neck, and beneath, white : on „ 



° Description. 



each ear a fpot of black : at the lower part of the neck behind, 

 each feather has a dufky black bar juft at the tip : the back and 

 wing coverts of a fine pale afh-colour : from the bend of the 

 wing to the tip of the fecond quills is a bar of black, appearing 

 oblique when the wing is clofed, this bar is caufed by moil 

 of the feathers in the direction being tipped with that colour : 

 the four firft quills are black, but the inner webs are white ; the 

 two next white, with a black mark clofe to the tips ; the reft 

 white ; fecondaries white, with a ftripe of black near the fhaft» 

 and parallel to it : tail white ; all but the outer feathers tipped 

 for one inch with black : legs dufky : the hind claw wanting. 



Inhabits Kamtfchatka. This feems to be the Tarrock in the Place; 



highefl ftate of markings, and of a larger fize than ufual. We 

 obferved a fecond, in which the markings were much lefs dif- 

 tinct, with the addition of fome clouds of black below the nape. 

 Both are in the pofTeflion of Sir Jofeph Banks. 



Larus Rifla, Lin. Syft. i. p. 224. 1. — Brun. N° 140. — Midler, N° 160. 19- 



Kittiwake, Br. Zool. ii. N° Z50. pi. % 9 .—Artl. Zool. N° ^b. — Phypps +" KITTIWAKE 

 Voy. p. 187. 



Lev. Muf. 



[ENGTH fourteen inches: breadth three feet two inches. Description, 

 The bill yellow, tinged with green : infide of the mouth 

 Vol. III. 3 E orange : 



