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Place. 



GULL. 



orange : head, neck, belly, and tail, fnow white : back and wings 

 grey : the outer edge of the firft quill feather, and the tips of 

 the four or five next, black : legs duflcy, with only a knob inftead 

 of a back toe. 



It varies in fometimes having behind the ear a dufky fpot. 



This inhabits the cliffs about Flamborougb Head, and is called 

 Petrel; the Bafs IJle ; the vaft rocks near the caftle of Shins, in 

 the county of Aberdeen ; and Prieftholm IJle. It is likewife met 

 with at Newfoundland. Found alfo in Greenland, Spitzbergen, 

 Iceland, and the north of Europe ; the arctic coaft of Afia ; and 

 Kamtfchatka *. By the Icelanders it is called Ritfa. 



Some authors affirm the Kittiwake to be the Tarrock in a ftate 

 of perfedion t j while others maintain the contrary %. As we 

 do not think ourfelves fufficiently well informed to decide upon 

 this head, muft leave it to be afcertained by future ornitho- 

 logifts. 



• ArQ. Zool. f Falricius in Faun. Groenl. 



X Linmzus fays, Varietas forte Lari tridaBjli, junior primi anni. See Syft* 

 Nat. i. Addend. — Mr. Pennant treats of them as diftinft fpecies. Br. Zool. 



Genus 



