ClafsII. SMALL BROWN GULL. 427 



exterior edge of the firft quil-feather black ; the reft 

 of that feather white; the next to that, tipt with 

 black, and marked with the fame on the inner web. 



IX. The SMALL BROWN GULL. 



The brown Tern. Wil. orn. Sterna nigra. Lin.fyfi. 227. 



252. Faun. Suec.fp. 159- 



Sterna fufca. Raiifyn. an/. 131. Br.ZooL 143. 



R. Ray has left us the following obfcure ac- 

 count of this bird •, communicated to him by 

 Mr. Johnfon, a York/hire gentleman. " The whole £>efcr 

 " under-fide is white ; the upper brown : the wings 

 * c partly brown, partly afh-color : the head black : 

 " the tail not forked : thefe birds fly in companies." 



From the defcription, we fufpect this bird to be 

 the young of the next fpecies, that had not yet at- 

 tained its proper colors, nor the long feathers of the 

 tail, which it does not acquire till mature age. 



Befidcs this, Sibbald has left us the name and figure 

 of a gull that breeds in the Bafs ijle \ he calls it 

 Ktttiwake ; and adds, that it is the fize of a pigeon, 

 and as good meat as a partridge *. 



* Sib, hijl. Scot. 20. tab. \t.fig. 2. Utft. Fife. 44. 



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