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ORD. III. GEN. III. GULL. 



SPE. III. WINTER GULL. 

 PI. 211. 

 La mouette d'hyvers. Brif. Orn. VI. p. 189. 



This bird ufually weighs one pound ; is in breadth near four feet, in length 

 eighteen inches. The bill is two inches long, {lender, of a pale yellow colour, 

 with a darkifh tip : eyes, hazel : eye-lids, yellow : crown of the head, hind 

 part and fides of the neck, greyifh white, marked with oblong brown fpots t 

 forehead, throat, belly, and rump, white : back, and fcapulars, pale grey * the 

 latter fpotted with brown: wing coverts, edged with white: quill feathers, 

 black : tail, white, with a black bar near the end : legs, pale yellow. 



The female weighs about twelve ounces: the top of the head and throat are 

 pale brown, fpotted with darker : back, darker grey than in the male : wing 

 coverts, and lefs quill feathers, brown, forming a broad band from the moul- 

 der to the greater quill- feathers, which are black : vent, brown : tail, black. 



Thefe birds are numerous, and proceed a confiderable way inland, going 

 miles up our frefh water rivers in hard winters. They breed in the northern 

 parts of Europe. This gull, as well as others of the genus, crows, &c. pick 

 up and eat the medufae or fea-blubbers, that are thrown afhore by the furge. 



