53v S K U A G U L L. Class II. 



with a black cere or fkin as in the hawk kind : the 

 noftrils placed near the bend, and are pervious. 



The feathers on the head, neck, back, fcapulars 

 and coverts of the wings are of a deep brown, 

 marked with riifl: color, (brighter!: in the male). 

 The fhafts of the primaries are white : the end and 

 exterior fide of the firft is deep brown ; the ends 

 only of the reft brown : the lower parts on both 

 fides being white*, the fecondaries marked in like 

 manner •, forming a great bar of white. The bread, 

 belly and vent ferruginous, tinged with afh color. 

 The tail when fpread is circular, of a deep brown, 

 white at the root 5 and with fhafts of the fame 

 color. 



The legs are covered with great black fcales : 

 the talons black, ftrong and crooked j the interior 

 remarkably fo. 

 History. This bird inhabits Norway, the Ferroe ifles, 



Shetland, and the noted rock Foula, a little weft of 

 •them. It is alfo a native of the South fea. It is 

 the moft formidable Gull, its' prey being not on- 

 ly fifh, but what is wonderful in a web-footed bird, 

 all the leffer fort of water fowl, fuch as teal, &c. 

 Mr. Schroter, a Surgeon in the Ferroe ifles, relates 

 that it likewife preys on ducks, poultry, and even 

 young lambs *. It has all the fiercenefs of the 

 eagle in defending its young *, when the inhabitants 

 of thofe iflands vifit the neft, it attacks them with 



* Holer in Clm. exot, 369, Brunnich, 35, 



great 



