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DEscRIP- 
TION. 
BLACK HEADED GULL. Cuass If. 
his death, they never fail to shift their quarters 
for a certain time. Whitelock, in his annals, 
mentions a piece of ground near Portsmouth, 
which produced to the owner forty pounds a 
year by the sale of Pewits, or this species of 
cull. These are the See-gudles that in old times, 
were admitted to the noblemen’s tables.* 
The notes of these gulls distinguish them 
from any others, being like a hoarse laugh. 
Their weight is about ten ounces; their length 
fifteen inches ; their breadth thirty-seven ; their 
irides are of a bright hazel; the edges of the 
eye-lids of a fine scarlet, and on each, above 
and below, is a spot of white feathers. Their 
bills and legs are of a sanguine red ; the heads 
and throats black or dusky; the neck, and all 
the under side of the body, and the tail, a pure 
white; the back and wings ash colored; the 
tip, and exterior edge of the first quil feather 
black, the rest of that feather white; the next 
to that tipt with black, and marked with the 
same on the inner web. 
* Vide Appendix. 
