154 GULL. 



A.— Larus hybernus, Gnu Lin. i. 596. Tern. Man. 500. Id. Ed. 2d. p. 773. 



Gavia hyberna, Bris. vi. 189. 7d. Svo. ii. 411. 



Larus fuscus, seu hybernus, Rail, 130. A. 14. Will. 266. t. 66. Klein, 138. 9. 



Larus ex cinereo, albo, fusco, et nigric. infectus et maculatus, Gerin. v. t. 531. 



Larus nostratibus vulgo Guairo, Gerin. v. t.535 ? 



Larus maculatus, Brim. No. 146. 147. 



Guaeu-guacu, Rail, 130. 12. Will. 268. Id. Engl. 352. 



Mouette d'Hyver, Buf. viii. 437. 



Winter Mew, Coddy Moddy, Gen. Syn. vi. p. 384. Br. Zool. ii. No. 248. pi. 86. 1. 



Id.fol. p. 142. pi. L. 2. 7rf. 1812. ii. 185. pi. 34. f. 1. Will. Engl. 350. pi. 66. 



Alb.'u. pi. 87. Bewick, ii. p. 221. Donov. pi. 77. Walcot,\. pi. 114.. Lewin, 



vi. pi. 210. 



Size of the last. Bill two inches long, horn-colour, tip black, 

 and bent at the end ; irides hazel ; top of the head, hind part, and 

 sides of the neck white, marked with oblong dusky spots; back 

 ash-colour; scapulars and wing coverts the same, marked with dusky 

 brown; forehead, all the under parts, and rump, white; the first 

 quill black, the six following more or less black at the ends ; the 

 others tipped with white; tail white, with a bar of black near the 

 end ; legs dirty bluish white. 



This is, without doubt, only an immature bird of the Common 

 Gull, probably in the plumage of the second year; and they vary 

 too, in respect to size and weight, in their different stages of growth. 



This species seems to be the most common of all the Genus, being 

 found in vast numbers on our shores and rivers, contiguous to the sea ; 

 sometimes approaching far inland ; seen to follow the plough for 

 the sake of picking up worms, and in particular are fond of the larvae 

 of the chafer beetle* Is seen in flocks of hundreds, on the shores 

 of the Thames, and other rivers, in the winter and spring at low 

 water, picking up various worms and small fish left by the tide; has 

 been also met with sometimes at sea, 200 miles from land. It breeds 



* Scarabajus Melolontha. — Lin. 



