| Cuass IL. 
HERRING GULL. 
Arctic bird, had lost those long feathers, so he 
has omitted them in the print. 
Linneus has separated this from its mate, his 
Larus parasiticus, and made it a synonym to his 
__ L. Cataractes, a bird as Ae from this as 
- any one of the whole genus.” 
’ Larus fuscus. L. albus, dorso 
fusco, pedibus flavis. Lath. 
Ind. orn. 815. id. Syn. vi. 
3o/2- 
Burgermeister. Martin's Spitz- 
berg. 84. , 
Herring Gull. Wil. orn. 345. 
Larus cinereus maximus. Raiz 
Syn. av. 127. 
Le Goiland gris. Brisson av. 
- Danis Silde-Maage. 
vi. 162. Hist. 
418. 
Larus fuscus. Gm. Lin. 599. 
Faun. Suec. sp. 154. 
Islandis 
Veydebjalla. Brunnich, 142. 
Grosse Staff Moeur. Frisch, 
ii. 218. 
Br. Zool. 141. Arct. Zool. it. 
242. 
181 
dois. Vili. 5. HERRING. 
Tus gull weighs upwards of thirty ounces; Descrir- 
the length is twenty-three inches; its breadth 
fifty-two. 
The bill yellow, and the lower man- 
dible marked with an orange colored spot; the 
irides straw color ; the edges of the eyelids red; 
the head, neck, and tail white; the back, and 
coverts of the wings ash colored; the upper 
part of the five first quil feathers are black, 
marked with a white spot near their end; the 
legs are of a pale flesh color. These birds breed 
* This error has been continued by Gmelin. 
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