Class II. HERRING GULL S35 



thofe long feathers, fo he has omitted them in 

 the print. 



Linnaus has feparated this from its mate, his 

 Larus parqfiticus> and made it a fynonym to his Li 

 Cataraftes, a bird as different from this as any other 

 of the whole genus. 



Burgermeifler Martin's Spitz- Larus fufcus. Lin, fyfi. 125. 246. Her- 



berg. 84. Faun. Suec. /p. 154. ring, 



Herring Gull. Wil. orn. 345. Danis Silde-Maage. IJlandis 



Larus cinereus maximus. Rati Veydebjalla. Brunnicb, 142. 



fyn a<v 127. GrofTe Staff Moeur. Frifch 9 



Le Goiland gris. Brijfon av. II. 218. 



VI. 162. Br. Z00L 141. 



>"TpHIS gull weighs upwards of thirty ounces: the Bescri: 

 ■*■ length twenty-three inches ; its breadth fifty- 

 two. The bill yellow, and the lower mandible 

 marked with an orange colored fpot: the irides 

 ftraw color: the edges of the eye-lids red: the head, 

 neck, and tail white : the back, and coverts of the 

 wings afn colored : the upper part of the five firft 

 quil-feathers are black, marked with a white fpoc 

 near their end: the legs of a pale ftefh color. Thefe 

 birds breed on the ledges of rocks that hang over 

 the fea : they make a large nefl of dead graft, and 

 lay three eggs of a dirty white, fpotted with black. 

 The young are aih colored, fpotted with brown ; 

 they .do not come to their proper color the fir ft year: 

 this is common to other gulls ^ which has greatly 



N n 3 multiplied 



