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whole upper fide of the body and wings, are of a very 

 deep brown, marked with ruft color in their middle: 

 the upper part of the quil- feathers are dusky, the 

 lower parts and the fhafts white : the tail confifts of 

 twelve feathers white at their roots, and dusky all 

 above ; the inner coverts of the wings deep brown, 

 the breaft, belly, and vent feathers, mixed with afti- 

 color and red. This bird belongs to Scotland, and 

 the North of England. What Mr. Ray and Mr. 

 Smith * fuppofe to be the Cornijh Gannet, we mail 

 fhew in another place to be a different bird. Mr. 

 Macauly j mentions a gull that makes great havoke 

 among the eggs and fea fowl of St. Hilda ; it is there 

 called Tuliac : his defcription fuits that of the herring 

 Gull; but we fufpecl he confounds thefe two kinds, 

 and has transferred the manners of this fpecies to the 

 latter. 



Linnaus involves two fpecies in the article Larus 

 Cataraffa ; this, and the arttic bird of Mr. Edwards, 

 birds of very different characters : we lament that we 

 are fo frequently obliged to remark the errors of fo 

 refpectable a name •, but his merits in the other 

 branches of natural hiftory, to which he has princi- 

 pally devoted himfelf, will more than atone for his 

 frequent over-fights in ornithology. M. Brijfon alfo 

 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) belongs to this fpe- 

 cies j and his print of the Stercoraire raye } p. 152. 



* mjl. Kerry. 



■f Hifl. St.Kilda. p. 158. 



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