422 BROWN AND WHITE GULL. Clafs II. 



eggs of a dirty white, fpotted with black. The young 

 are aih-colored, fpotted with brown ; they do not 

 come to their proper color the firft year : this is com- 

 mon toother gulls ; which has greaily multiplied the 

 fpecies among authors, who are inattentive to thefe 

 particulars. This gull is a great devourer of filh, 

 efpecialiy of that from which it takes its name : it is 

 a conftant attendent on the nets, and fo bold as to 

 feize its prey before the fiihermens faces. 



VI. The BROWN AND WHITE GULL. 



Great grey Gull, the Cornifh Larus Nsevius. Lin. fyjl. 225. 



Wagel. Wil. cm. 349. Danis Graae - Maage T IJlandls 

 Raiijyn. a<v. 13c. Kablabrinkar. Brunnich. 150. 



Le Goiland vane, ou le Grifard. Br. Zoo!. 141. 



Br iff on a<u. vi. 167. tab. 15. 



Tx»r<-* T^HE bird we examined, weighed thirty-two 



JL7SICJ* M * ZJ J 



JL ounces : the length was one foot eleven inches: 

 the breadth four feet eight : the irides are dusky: the 

 bill black, and near three inches long. The whole 

 plumage of the head and body, above and below, is 

 a mixture of white, auVcolor, and brown: the lafl: 

 color occupies the middle of each feather ; and in 

 fome birds is pale, in others dark : the quil-feathers 

 black : the lower part of the tail is mottled with 

 black and white-, towards the end is a brown black 

 bar, and the tips are white : the legs are of a dirty 

 white. 



Some have fuppofed this to be the young of the 

 preceding fpecies, which (as well as the reft of the 



gull 



