532 BLACK TOED GULL. Class II. 



voke among the eggs and fea fowl of St. Kilda -, k 

 is there called bullae : his defcription iuits that of 

 the herring Gull\ but we fufpect he confounds thefe 

 two kinds, and has transferred the manners of 

 this fpecies to the latter. 



Linn aus involves two fpecies in the article Larus 

 Catara5ia\ this, and the arMic bird of Mr. Ed- 

 wards, birds of very different characters. M. Brif- 

 fon does not feem perfectly acquainted with this 

 bird -, for the fynonym of the Skua, given by him 

 to his fifth gull (our brown and white gull) be- 

 longs to this fpecies ; and his print of the Sterco- 

 raire raye, p. 152. tab 13. torn. VI. to which he 

 has given the fynonym of Mr. Edwards's arctic 

 bird, feems to be the very fame which we have 

 here defcribed. 



244. Black Cepphus. Aldr. av. III. $$. The Cepphus. Phil.Tranfaci. 

 TOED. Wil. orn. 351. Vol. 52. 135. 



Raiijyn. av. 129. Cathara&a Cepphus, Strand- 



hoeg. Brunnich, ornith. 126. 



Descrip. fT^HIS fpecies weighs eleven ounces: its length 

 A is fifteen inches : its breadth thirty-nine : the 

 bill is one inch and a half long, the upper part co- 

 vered with a brown cere : the noftrils like thofe 

 of the former •, the end black and crooked. The 

 feathers of the forehead come pretty low on the 

 bill : the head and neck are of a dirty white: the 



hind 



