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gull tribe) fcarce ever attains its true colors till after 

 the firft year : but it muft be obferved, that the firft 

 colors of the irides, of the quil-feathers, and of the 

 tail, are in all birds permanent; thefe, as we have 

 remarked, differ in each of thefe gulls fo greatly, as 

 ever to preferve unerring notes of diftinction. 



This fpecies is likewife called by fome the Dung 

 Hunter ; for the fame reafon as the lad is ftyled fo. 



VII. The WINTER MEW. 



Winter Mew, or Coddy Moddy. Gavia Hyberna, Ie Mouette 

 Wil. orn. 350. d'hiver. Brijfin a<v. vi. 1 89. 



Raiify n. a<v. l$Q. Br.Zool.L\z. 



'"TpHIS weighs from fourteen to feventeen Defer. 



-*■ ounces : the length eighteen inches ; the breadth 

 three feet nine. The irides are hazel : the bill two 

 inches long, but the flendereft of any gull; it is black 

 at the tip, whitifh towards the bafe. The crown of 

 the head, and hind part, and fides of the neck, are 

 white, marked with oblong dusky fpots ; the fore- 

 head, throat, middle of the bread, belly and rump, 

 are white ; the back and fcapulars, are of a pale grey; 

 the laft fpotted with brown ; the coverts of the wings 

 are of a pale brown, edged with white; the firft quil- 

 feather is black; the fucceeding are tipt with white : 

 the tail is white, crolTed near the end wich a black 

 bar ; the legs of a dirty white. 



This kind frequents, during winter, the moid 

 meadows in the inland parts of England, remote from 



the fea. The gelatinous fubftance, known by the 



name 



