426 ARTIC GULL. Clafs II. 



with rufl color. The legs are of a bluifh lead 

 color : the lower part of the toes and webs black. 



A bird of this kind was taken near Oxford, and 

 communicated to the Royal Society by Dr. Lyfons, 

 of Gloucejler. 



IV. The ARCTIC GULL. 



The Struntjagger, or Dung- Larus Paraiiticus. Lin.fyft. 226. 



hunter. Marten's Spitxberg. Svvartlaffe, Labben, Elof. Faun. 



87. Suec.fp. 156. 



The Ardic Bird. Edw. a<v. 148, Brunnicb. 127. 



149. 



E received the female of this fpecies from the 

 reverend Mr. Fletcher, of the county of Gal- 

 way, who informed me it was (hot on that coaft. 

 All writers that mention it agree, that it has the pro- 

 perty of purfuing the leffer gulls fo long, that they 

 mute for fear, and that it catches up and devours 

 their excrement before they drop into the water; 

 from which the name. Linnaus wittily calls it the 

 ParaJIte, alluding to its fordid life. 

 D r The length of this fpecies is twenty-one inches : the 

 bill is dusky, about an inch and a half long, pretty 

 much hooked at the end, but the ftrait part is covered 

 with a fort of cere. The noflrils are narrow, and 

 placed near the end, like the former. In the male, the 

 crown of the head is black : the back, wings, and 

 tail dusky •, but the lower part of the inner webs of 

 the quil-feathers white : the hind part of the neck, 

 and whole underfide of the body white : the tail con- 

 4- fifts 



