GULL. t53 



16— COMMON GULL. 



Larus canus, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 815. Lin. i. 224. Fn. suec. No. 153. Gm. Lin. i. 59G. 



Sepp, pi. 56. Brun. No. 141. Mul/er, No. 162. Georgi, p. 170. Fn.arag. p.7&. 



Boroxvsk. iii. p. 47. 3. .4c*. f/ota. iv. p. 109. Fn. Helv. Tern. Man. 501.' Id. 



Ed. Id. p. 774. 

 Larus cinereus rostri extremitate et pedibus croceis, Gerin. v. t. 530. 

 Larus canescens, Hasselq. It. 272. 39. Id. Voy. 202. 

 Gavia cinerea, Bris. vi. 175. 1. 16. f. 1 ? Id. 8vo. ii. 408. 

 Gavia cinerea major, Bris. vi. p. 182. 1. 16. f. 2. 7rf.8vo.ii. p. 410. 

 Larus rostro nigro, Klein, Ac. 137. 5. Id. Ov. 35. t. 20. f. 5. 

 Larus cinereus minor, Raii, 127. A. 3. Wi//. 262. t. 76. 

 La grande Mouette cendree, Buf. viii. 428. PI. enl. 977. 

 Gabbiano minore tli color cinerizio, Zinnan. Uov. 115. t. 22. f. 104. 

 Kleine graue Mewe, Naturf. xii. 143. 



Die gemeine Meve, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 808. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. p. 645. 

 La Mouette cendree, Voy. d'Azara,\v. No. 410. 

 White web-footed Gull, Albin, ii. pi. 84. 

 Common Gull, Gen.Syn.v'u p. 378. Br. Zool. ii. No. 249. pi. 89. f. 2. Id.fol. 142. 



Id. 1812. ii. p. 184. pi. 34. f. 2. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 458. Id. Sup. p. 70. Will. 



Engl. 345. pi. 76. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 218. Lewin,v\. pi. 215. 7rf. xliv. f. 1, the 



egg. Donov. ii. pi. 46. Walcot, i. pi. 110. Pult. Dors. p. 18. Graves, Vol. 1. 



Or«. Diet. Sf Supp. 



LENGTH eighteen inches, breadth three feet; weight sixteen 

 ounces. Bill yellow; irides hazel; eyelids brown ; head, neck, under 

 parts, and tail white; back and wings pale blue grey; the outer edge 

 of the first four quills, and ends of the first five black ; but the 

 fourth and fifth have a white spot at the tips ; the rest, except the 

 three nearest the body, have the ends white; legs dull greeenish 

 white; in some spotted with yellowish. 



The young of this, as of all of the Gull Tribe, are more or Jess 

 mottled with brown, which they lose by degrees, as they approach 

 to maturity. 



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