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TOED. 
DEscriIP- 
TION. 
BLACK ‘TOED GULL. Ciass 1h 
Larus crepidatus. L. luteo fus- “L’ Abbe ou Stercoraire. “ Bris- 
coque varius subtus palli- son-av. vi. 152. tab. 13. /f. 
dior, macula alarum alba. 2. Hist. d ois. vii. 441. Pl. 
Lath. Ind. orn. 819. id. Eni. ggl. 
Syn. vi. 387. id. Sup. i. ‘The Cepphus.’ Phil. Transact. 
268. Voi. lit. 135. 
Cepphus. Aldr. av. ii. 38. Catharacta Cepphus, ered. 
Wil. orn. 351. ‘hoeg. Brunnich, ornith. 126. 
Rau Syn. av. 120. Arct. Zool. ii. 246. 
‘THis species weighs eleven ounces : its length 
is fifteen inches ; its breadth thirty-nine. The 
bill is one inch and a half long, the upper part 
covered with a brown cere; the nostrils ‘like 
those of the preceding species, the end black and 
crooked. The feathers of the forehead ‘come 
rather low on the bill; the head and neck are 
of a dirty white; the hind part of the ‘latter 
plain, the rest marked with oblong dusky ‘spots. 
The breast and belly are white, crossed with 
numerous dusky and yellowish lines; the fea-— 
thers on the sides and the vent, are barred — 
transversely with black and white; the back, 
scapulars, coverts of the wings and tail, are 
black, beautifully edged with white or pale rust 
color; the shafts and tips of the quil feathers 
are W Hite! the exterior web, and upper half of 
the interior web black, but the love ee of the 
