]50 GULL. 



web, near the tip, and the tip itself white; the four following white 

 only at the tips ; the second quills white at the ends ; legs brownish 

 red. It is as numerous in the Polar Sea as in Baffin's Bay, and 

 Davis's Strait. 



Dr. J. R. Forster mentioned to me, that he met with this species 

 both at Terre del Fuego, and New Zealand. 



14 —HERRING GULL. 



Larus fuscus, Ind. Orn. ii. S15. Lin. i. 225. Fn. suec. No. 154. Gm. Lin. i. 599. 



Scop.u No. 107. Brun. No. 142. Id. 143. Var. 104. young. Mull. No. 164. 



Georgi, p. 171. Frisch, t. 218. Borowsk. iii. p. 49. Act. Holm. iv. 105. Fn. 



Helvet. Sepp, iii. t. 101. Lin. Trans, viii. p. 267. Id. xii. p. 547. Tern. Man. 



497. Id. Ed. 2d. 767. 

 Larus varius, Brun. No. 150. young bird. 



■ griseus, Bris. vi. 162. Id. 8vo. ii. 405. Klein, Av. 137. 2. 



Gavia grisea, Bris. vi. 171. 6. young. Id. 8vo. ii. 407. 



Larus cinereus maximus, Rail, 127. A. 2. Will. 262. Sloan. Jam. 322. Gerin. v. 



t. 533. 

 Gabiano Zafferano niezza more, Gerin. v. 532. 

 Die Heeringsmeve, Beschst. Deuts. ii. 818. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 658. 

 Goeland a. manteau gris et blanc, Buf. viii. 421. in the third year's feathers. 

 Herring Gull, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 402. Br. Zool. ii. No, 246. pi. 88. Id.fol. 141. 



Id. 1812. ii, 181. pi. 33. Orn. Diet. $■ Supp. 



LENGTH twenty inches; weight thirty ounces. Bill yellow, 

 with an orange spot on the under mandible ; hides straw-colour ; the 

 edges of the eyelids red ; the head and neck are white, with a pale 

 dusky dash down the middle of each feather; front, throat, breast, 

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

 the back, the scapulars, and wings in general black, or deep ash ; 

 the quills black, towards the end of the two exterior an oval spot of 

 white, the end black ; the others white to the end ; the secondaries 

 and scapulars tipped with white; legs yellowish : the plumage in 

 both sexes much the same. 



