ClafsII. HERRING GULL. 421 



lifts of twelve feathers, the two middlemoft near four 

 inches longer than the others : the legs black, fmall, 

 and fcaly. 



The female was entirely brown % but of a much 

 paler color below than above : the feathers in the 

 middle of the tail were only two inches longer than 

 the others. The fpecimen from which Mr. Edwards 

 toke the figure of his female Arctic bird, had loft thofe 

 long feathers, fo he has omitted them in the print. 



Linnaus has feparated this from its mate, his Larus 

 ■parafiticus^ and made it a fynonym to his L. Cata- 

 racles, a bird as different from this as any other 

 of the whole genus. 



V. The HERRING GULL. 



Wil. orn. 345'. Faun. Suec. fp. 154. 



Raiijyn. a<v. 127. Z)£»z.?Silck-Maage. JJlaxdisVey- 



Le Goiland gris. Brijfon a-v . vi. debjalla. Brminich. 142. 



162. Br. Zool. 141. 

 Lurus fufcus. Liiz./yji. 125. 



THIS gull weighs upwards of thirty ounces : the De{ - cr 

 length twenty three inches; its breadth fifty- 

 two. The bill yellow, and the lower mandible 

 marked with an orange colored fpot : the mdzsjlraiv 

 color: the edges of the eye-lids red : the head, neck, 

 and tail white : the back, and coverts of the wings, 

 afh-colored : the upper part of' the five firft quil- 

 feathers are black, marked with a white fpot near their 

 end : the legs of a pale flefh-color. Thefe birds 

 breed. on the ledges of rocks that hang over the fea : 

 they make a large neft of dead grafs, and lay three 



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