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ORD. III. GEN. III. GULL. 



SPE. VII. COMMON GULL. 



PI. 216. 



Larus canus. Lin. Syji. I. p. 224. 



La Mouette cendree. BHJ. Orn. VI. p. 175. 



This gull is fixteen inches long, in breadth thirty-four, and weighs about 

 twelve ounces. The bill is of a pale yellow, and very flender compared with 

 thofe of the reft of the birds of this genus : the head, neck, tail, and under 

 fide white, with a greyifli tinge on the back part of the head and neck : be- 

 hind the eye, a dark grey fpot : back, and wing coverts, pale grey : outer 

 margins and tips of the firft quill feathers, black: legs, pale greenifh yellow. 



I cannot think this bird nearly fo common with us as is reprefented, for the 

 great flocks of gulls on our coafts in the winter confift moftly of the young 

 black- headed gulls. It is faid to breed on the ledges of rocks and cliffs, 

 For the egg fee PI. XLVII. Fig. 2. 



