(A.) WaGEL. 
DESCRIP= 
TION. 
. WAGEE GULL. Ciassi. | 
en the ledges of rocks that hang over the sea; 
they make a large nest of dead grass, and lay 
three eggs of a dirty white, spotted with black. 
The young are ash colored, spotted with brown ; 
they do not come to their proper color the first 
year; this is common to other gulls; which has — 
greatly multiplied the species among authors, 
who are inattentive to these particulars. This ' 
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gull is a great devourer of fish, especially of 
that from which it takes its name; it is a Con- 
stant attendant on the nets, and so bold as to 
seize its prey before the fishermen’s faces. 
Larus marinus. y. L. albus, tab. 15. Hist. @ ois. viti. 413. 
dorso cinereo,  rectricibus tab. 33. Pl. Enl. 266. 
apice nigris. Lath. Ind.orn. Larus nevius. Gm. Lin. 598. 
814. ad. Syn. vi. 375. Danis Graae-Maage. Islandis - 
Great grey Gull, the Cornish Kablabrinkar. | Brunnich, 
Wagel. Wil. orn. 349. GT onli 
Rati Syn. av. 130. Brown and White Gull. Br. 
Le Goiland varié, ou la Gri- Zool, ii, 422. 
sard. Brisson av. vi. 167. Wagel. Arct. Zool. ii. 243. 
THESE birds vary much in their size; one 
we examined weighed three pounds seven 
ounces ; the lensth was two feet two inches; 
the breadth five feet six; others again did not 
weigh two pounds and a half. The irides are 
dusky; the bill black, and nearly three inches 

