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the last for one inch from the end, with white tips; the rest dove-colour, 

 tipped white ; the ends of all the secondaries are also white, but not 

 seen unless the wing is expanded ; under wing coverts white ; the 

 quills reach one inch beyond the tail ; legs two inches, and black, 

 with a tinge of pink-colour. 



Inhabits Savanna, in Georgia, and parts thereabouts. A speci- 

 men sent from thence by Mr. Abbot, by the name of Cinereous Gull. 

 He observes, that the bird was new to him. 



We have placed this as distinct, not without suspicion of its being 

 allied to the Laughing Gull, but be this as it may, the tail being 

 wholly white, seems to prove it an adult bird, and probably in its 

 change from summer to winter plumage. 



A second of these sent to Mr. Francillon, and shot in October, 

 at which time the former was killed, was only sixteen inches long. 

 Bill dusky, reddish towards the base ; forehead to the crown white ; 

 crown, nape, and hind part of the neck, mottled brownish ash ; back 

 dove-colour; wings pale mottled ash ; the first quill longest, and 

 black; the first five plain, the others white at the tips; the secon- 

 daries sooty, deeply margined at the end, with white; rump and tail 

 for three-fourths of the length white ; the end for one inch and a half 

 black ; the quills exceeding the end of it by an inch and a half. 



5.— MASKED GULL. 



Larus capistratus, Mouette a masque brun, Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. 785. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill smaller, and more slender than 

 in the Black-headed, but the plumage in general not far different ; 

 the outer quills with white shafts; the whole front of the head light 

 brown, giving the idea of a mask; the legs are shorter than in the 

 Black-headed, and reddish brown. 



In the summer the mask is dirty grey brown ; top of the head, 

 cheeks, opening of the ears, and throat, light brown ; nape and fore 



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