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LARID^. 
■\vliite, with a dusky crescent-shaped spot before the eye, 
and a brown spot on the cheeks ; the top of the head, nape, 
and scapulars, are pale greyish ash, with yellowish brown 
half-moon shaped spots; the secondaries and the tertials 
are yellowish brown in the centre, and edged with white; 
part of the wing-coverts are brown with white edges, and 
part cinereous grey; the tip of the tail dusky ; the quill 
feathers greyish white with dusky tips, and the two first 
feathers in the wing dusky on the outer web ; the beak 
and legs are tile red; the beak has a dusky tip to both 
mandibles. 
The egg figured 302 is that of the Pewit Gull. 
