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skin of one given to me, which was thought to have been killed in 

 England ; but Colonel Montagu has determined this matter, by 

 assuring us, that he saw five of them together, feeding in a pool, 

 upon the Shingly Flats, near Winch el sea, in August, 1774: two only 

 were black on the head, the others mottled all over with brown ; one 

 of them was shot, the others were too shy to be procured. This 

 Gentleman also saw two others, near Hastings, in Sussex ; and 

 observes, that this species may be easily known from the Black- 

 headed, even on the wing, the flight being different; the bird 

 appears much larger, and the tail shorter in proportion.* It is like- 

 wise met with in more places than one on the Continent of America, 

 and very numerous in the Bahama Islands ; and also found at 

 Cayenne. — A Gull with a black head and dusky yellow irides, 

 frequents Hudson's Bay, coming in May ; makes the nest on the 

 on the pine trees, lays four lead-colour eggs, and departs south in 

 September; feeds on fish and worms, and is called by the natives 

 Akeese-keeask.t 



We suspect also that it inhabits India, as we have seen one corres- 

 ponding in drawings from thence, but this had only the fore part of 

 the head, including the eye, and the chin and throat, dusky black. 



4— GEORGIAN GULL. 



LENGTH eighteen inches, breadth thirteen. Bill long, blackish, 

 point red ; irides yellow brown : head for the most part, neck, and 

 all beneath, white ; from the crown to the nape, and to the eye, 

 dusky white, mottled with pale cinereous-brown; on the ears a 

 patch of the latter; back and wings pale bluish ash ; rump and tail 

 white; the three first quills black, the second and third tipped with 

 white ; the first wholly black, and shorter by an inch ; the fourth and 

 fifth dove-colour ; the first of these black for one inch and a half; and 



* Orn. Diet. t Mr - Hutchins. 



