Class II. BLACK HEAD GULL. 



In lieu of the back toe, it has only a fmall pro- 

 tuberance. 



This fpecies breeds on Prieftholme T/Ie 9 alfo a- 

 mong the former in Scotland. I muft retract my 

 opinion of its being the young of that fpecies. 



541 



Cepphus Turneri. Gefner cvv. 



2 49- 

 Larus cinereus tertius. Aldr. 



a-v. III. 35. 

 Pewit, or Black Cap, Sea 



Crow, Mire Crow. Wil 



orn. 347. 

 Rati fyn. a<v. 128. itin. 21 J. 

 Pewit. Plott's hiji. Staff. 23 1 . 



Puit. Fuller* s Brit. Worthies. 



318. 

 La Mouette rieufe a pattes 



rouges. Briffbn a<v.Yl. ig6. 

 Gabbiano cinerizio col roftro, 



e col li piedi roffi. Zinan. 



Larus ridibundus. Lin. fyfi. 



225. 

 Br. Zool. 143. 



252. Black 

 Head. 



THESE birds breed in vaft numbers in the 

 iflands of certain pools in the county of Staf- 

 ford', and, as Dr. Fuller tells us, in another on the 

 Effex (horesj alfo in the Fens of Lincoln/hire. They 

 are birds of paiTage ; refort there in the fpring -, and 

 after the breeding feafon difperfe to the fea coafts : 

 they make their neft on the ground, with ruflies, 

 dead grafs, and the like ; and lay three eggs of a 

 dirty olive color, marked with black. The young 

 were formerly highly efteemed, and numbers were 

 annually taken and fattened for the table. Plott 

 gives a marvellous account of their attachment to 

 the lord of the foil they inhabit; infomuch, that 



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