134 GULL. 



two next black, but the shafts and middle part white; the tips of 

 the two following white, beneath a black bar; the rest, as well as the 

 secondaries, ash-colour ; in other things itresembles the first described. 

 In this state the feathers of the head are externally white, with here 

 and there a dusky shade, but on raising them they appear to be 

 white only at the ends, the rest being dusky or blackish. Both this 

 and the foregoing appear to be complete in their plumage, and the 

 former in the winter dress. 



B.— Larus maculatus, Mars. Dan. v. p. 94. t.45. Klein,138. 14. Gen. Syn. v\. 382. A. 

 Lams erythropus, Gin. Lin. \. p. 597. Ind.Om.W. 812. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 506. Id. 



Ed. 2d. 783. 

 Red-legged Gull, Arct. Zooh ii. 533. E. Br. Zool. Ed. 1812. 192. 

 Gavia grisea minor, Buf. vi. p. 173. Id. 8vo. ii. p. 408. 

 Brown-headed Gull, Gen. Syn. vi. 383. Om. Diet. 



Length fourteen inches. Bill red; eyelids scarlet; the head and 

 throat mouse-colour, spotted with white; neck and belly white ; the 

 back and scapulars ash ; wing coverts dusky brown, edged with dusky 

 white; the exterior sides, and part of the interior of the four first 

 quills black; tail white, the ten middle feathers tipped with black, 

 near an inch broad ; the outer one plain ; legs red. 



One of these was killed on the banks of the Esk, at Netherby, 

 the seat of Sir J. Graham. Mr. Pennant's bird was shot in Anglesea. 



C. — Sterna obscura, Ind. Om. ii. 810. 



Brown Tern, Gen. Syn. vi. 368. 



Brown Gull, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 331. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 193. Orn., Diet. Sf Supp. 



Length fifteen inches. The bill yellow as far as the hook of the 

 npper, and to the gibbous part of the lower mandible, from thence 

 black; hindhead and nape dusky; at the anterior angle of the orbit 

 a black spot, another of the same behind the ear; forehead, throat, 

 neck before, belly, vent, and rump white ; the back, scapulars, and 



