.146" GULL. 



almost four inches long, pale yellow, the lower mandible marked 

 with a red spot, having a black one in the middle; edges of the 

 eyelids orange ; irides yellow ; the head, neck, all beneath, the lower 

 part of the back and the tail, white; the upper part of the back and 

 the wings black ; quills tipped with white ; legs pale flesh-colour. 



This bird inhabits various parts of England, but we believe is 

 less numerous than many of the other species ; it generally keeps in 

 small flocks of eight or ten, sometimes in pairs, but never herding 

 with the other Gulls. Said to breed on the Steep Holmes, and on 

 Lundy Islands, in the British Channel ; and is there called a Cobb. 

 The young, for the first two or three years, are mottled all over with 

 brown and white; the bill light horn-colour, tip black; quills 

 dusky; tail mottled, near the end a dusky bar, tip white; irides 

 and orbits dusky. These, from associating with the former, and 

 their weight and size being but little inferior, may naturally be 

 supposed to be young birds, and will accord with the synonyms 

 following. 



YOUNG BIRD. 



Larus tiaevias, Gm. Lin. i. 59S. Ind. Orn.W. 814. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 492. Id. Ed. 



2d. 702. 

 Larus varius, Bris. vi. 167. 5. t. 15. Id. 8vo. ii. 400. Drun. No. 150. Muller, 169. 



griseus maxmius, Klein, 137. 6. Id. Stem. t. 30. f. 1. a. b. Burt. Tr. p. 293. 



Wagellus Cornubiensiura, Rati, 130. A. 13. Will. 206. t. 66. 



Larus maculis Muscas referentibus variegatus, Gerin. v. t. 534. 



Bunte Sturmmeue, Shr. d. Berl. Nat. viii. 92. 



Die g-efleehte Meve, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 814. 



Le Goeland varie, Grisard, Buf. viii. 413. pi. 33. PI. enl. 266. 



Wagel Gull, Gen. Syn. vi. 375. Br. Zool. ii. No. 247. A. pi. 28. Id. 1812. ii. p. 



182. pi. 33. f. 2. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 453. Id. Sup. p. 70. Will. Engl. 349. pi. 



66. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 216. Lewin, vi. No. 20S. pi. xlii. — the egg. Walcot, i. 



pi. 111. Pult. Dors. p. 18. Orn. Diet. Lin. Trans. V. xii. 547. 



THIS is about two feet in length, and in breadth five; weight 

 nearly three pounds. Bill black, from two to three inches long ; 

 irides dusky ; plumage in general mixed brown, ash-colour, and 



