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W A G E L, 



Class II, 



multiplied the fpecies among authors, who are in- 

 attentive to thefe particulars. This gull is a great 

 devourer of fifh, efpecially of that from which it 

 takes its name : it is a conflant attendent on the 

 nets, and fo bold as to feize its prey before the fifh- 

 ermens faces. 



(A.) Great grey Gull, the Cor- Larus Naevius. Lin. fyfi. 225. 



47.WAGEL. niih Wagel. IVil. orn. 349. Danis Graae-Maage. IJlandis 



Raii Jyn. av. 130. Kablabrinkar. Brunnicb, 



Le Goiland varie, ou le Gri- 150. 



fard. Briflan ohj. VI. 167. Brown and White Gull. Br. 



tab. 



Zool. II. 422. 



De 



SCRIP, 



THESE birds vary much in their fize ; one 

 we examined weighed three pounds feven 

 ounces: the length was two feet two inches : the 

 breadth five feet fix : others again did not weigh 

 two pounds and a half: the irides are dufky: the 

 bill black, and near three inches long. The whole 

 plumage of the head and body, above and below, 

 is a mixture of white, afh color, and brown: 

 the laft color occupies the middle of each fea- 

 ther -, and in fome birds is pale, in others dark : 

 the quil-feathers black : the lower part of the tail 

 is mottled with black and white ; towards the end 

 is a brown black bar, and the tips are white : the 

 legs are of a dirty white. 



Some have fuppofed this to be the young of the 



preceding 



