LITTLE GULL. 
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The adult in winter has the foreliead, the space over the 
eye, temples, cheeks, chin, and throat, neck, breast, belly, 
vent, tail and tail-coverts, pure white; before the eye is a 
small black triangular spot; on the ear-coverts a spot of grey¬ 
ish ash, and this colour covers the back of the head, and ex¬ 
tends in lesser depth some way down the neck : the back, 
shoulders, wing-coverts, and secondary quill-feathers very pale 
bluish ash, the latter have the tips white, much of the inner 
webs white, and the edge of the wing is also white ; the pri¬ 
maries and the greater wing-coverts a trifle darker bluish ash 
colour than the back; the tips, inner webs, and outer edge 
of the first quill as in the summer plumage. The beak is 
reddish brown; the legs and feet scarlet red; the iris dark 
brown. 
