Biren 
‘Crass If. 
ARCTIC GULL. 
latter white; the tail consists of twelve black 
feathers tipt with white, the two middle of which, 
are nearly an inch longer than the others: 
the shafts are white; and the exterior webs of 
the outmost feather is spotted with rust color. 
The legs are of a bluish lead color ; the lower 
part of the toes and webs black. 
A bird of this kind was taken near Oxford,* 
and communicated to the Reyal Society by the 
late Dr. Lysons of Glowcester. 
L’Abbe.a longue queue. Bris- 
son av. Vie 155. Hast. dois. 
Larus parasiticus. i. supra ni- 
ger, collo pectore et abdo- 
mine albis, rectricibus dua- 
bus intermediis longissimis. 
_ Lath. Ind. orn. 819: 2d. 
Syn. vi. 389. tab. 99. 
The Struntjagger, or Dung- 
hunter. Marten’s Spitz- 
berg. 87. 
The Arctic Bird. Edw. av. 
148. 149. 
* 
vill. 445. PI. Enl. 762. 
Larus Parasiticus. Gm. Lin, 
601. 
Swartlasse, Labben, 
Faun. Suec. sp. 156. 
Brunnich, 127. 
Arct. Zool. ti. 246. 
Elof. 
THESE birds are very common in the Hfe- 
brides. 1 saw numbers in Jura, Tlay, and 
Rum, where they breed in the heath ; if disturb- 
ed they fly about like the lapwing, but soon 
alight. They are also found in the Orknies, 
* Another has since been killed near Horsham in. Sussex,and 
Eb. 
a third in Lancashire. 
N 2 
179 
4. ARCTIC. 
