53 3 COMMON GULL' Class II. 



with white ; the firft quil-feather is black; the fuc- 

 ceeding are tipt with white : the tail is white, crof- 

 fed near the end with a black bar ; the legs of a 

 dirty bluifh white. 



This kind frequents, during winter, the moift 

 meadows in the inland parts of England^ remote 

 from the fea. The gelatinous fubflance, known 

 by the name of Star Shot, or Star Gelly, owes its 

 origin to this bird, or fome of the kind; being no- 

 thing 1 but the half dieefted remains of earth-worms, 

 en which thefe birds feed, and often difcharge 

 from their ftomachs*. 



Linnaeus, p. 224. makes this fpecies fynonymous 

 with the haras tridaffyhis or Tarrock; but as we 

 have had opportunity of examining feveral of 

 each fpecies, and iind in all thofe ilrong diftinc- 

 tions remarked in our defcriptions, we mud decline 

 afTenting to the opinion of that eminent naturalift, 



2<g. Com- Galedor, CrocrJa, Galetra. La Mouette cenclree. Brijfon 



HON. - m* 34* r-v.Vl. 175. tab. 16. fig. 1. 



Common Sea Mall. WiL cm. Gabbiano minore. Zina?i. 115. 



34;. Lams canus. Lin. fyft. 224. 



C mmOB Sea Mall, or Me\j\ Br. Zod, 142. Scopoli, No. 

 Rail jyn. aw. ii". 104. 



HIS is the mofl numerous of the genus. It 

 breeds on the ledges of the cliffs that im- 



* Vide -Iciio^s Nat, Hifi* Nortkamft, p. 353. 



pend 



