426 PEWIT GULL. ClafsIL- 



X. The P E W I T GULL. 



Cepphus Turneri. Gefner av. Puit. Fullers Brit, 'worthies. 318. 



249. La Mouette rieufe a pattes 

 Larus cinereus tertius. Aldr. a<v. rouges. Brijfon wv. vi. 196. 



iii. 35. Gabbiano cirserizio col roflro, e 

 Pewit, or Black Cap, Sea Crow, col li piedi roffi. Zinan. 115. 



Mire Crow, Wil.^y. Larus ridibundus. Lin.fyfi. 225. 



Raiifyn. a<v. I 28. it in. 217. Br. Zool. 143. 

 Pewit. Plotfs bift. Staff. 231. 



THESE birds breed in vaft numbers, in the 

 iflands of certain pools in the county of Staf- 

 ford •, and, as Dr. Fuller tells us, in another on the 

 EJfex mores. They are birds of paflage ; refort there 

 in the fpring •, and after the breeding feafon difperfe 

 to the fea coafts : they make their neft on the ground, 

 with rulhes, dead grafs, and the like; and lay from 

 four to fix eggs, of a dirty olive color, marked with 

 black. The young were formerly highly efteemed, 

 and numbers were annually taken, and fattened for 

 the table. Plott gives a marvellous account of their 

 attachment to the lord of the foil they inhabite ; in- 

 fomuch that on his death, they never fail to fhift their 

 quarters for a certain time. 



The notes of thefe gulls diMinguim them from any 

 Defer, others •, being like a hoarfe laugh. Their weight is 

 about ten ounces : their length fifteen inches; their 

 breadth thirty-feven. Their bills and legs are of a 

 fancruine red : the heads and throats black or dusky : 

 the neck, and all the under fide of the body, and the tail, 

 a pure white : back and wings afh-colored : tip, and 



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