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LARID^. 
The plumage of the adult bird in summer has the head, 
neck, breast, and all the under parts including the tail, pure 
white; the back, scapulars, wing coverts, secondaries and 
tertials, bluish ash colour; the tips of the scapulars, tertials and 
greater wing coverts are pure white; the outer quill feather 
has the whole of its outer web and the end black ; the second 
with the end and greater part of the outer web the same ; the 
third has its end and but a small part of its outer web black ; 
the fourth and fifth have the ends only black, and tipped 
with a small spot of white; the legs and feet are dusky 
olive; the beak is Naples yellow with a greenish or wax 
yellow tint at the tip ; the eye dusky brown ; the eyelids 
bright crimson red. 
The plumage of the adult in winter differs only in having 
a greyish circle round the eye, the same colour on the tips of 
the ear coverts, and on the nape and back part of the 
neck. 
The plumage of the young after the first autumnal moult 
has the head, neck, and all the under parts white, except the 
tail, which is tipped with black ; the grey spot before the eye 
is darker, approaching to blue black, the spot on the ear 
coverts bluish ash and black ; on the base of the neck behind 
is a broad patch of black, softened at the edges with bluish 
ash ; the back and scapulars are bluish ash of a darker tint 
than in the adult. 
The lesser wing coverts are black, edged with grey; the 
greater wing coverts grey with white tips ; the outer web of 
the tertials black, the inner paler gull grey, and edged with 
white ; the quills as in the adult; the beak, Naples yellow, 
with a dusky tip ; the gape pale red, the eye dusky brown, 
the eyelid grey ; the legs and feet paler than in the adult. 
The egg figured 305 is that of the Kittiwake, 
