158 GULL. 



tongue orange; head, neck, belly, rump, and tail, pure white ; back 

 and wings dove-colour, or light grey ; the outer edge of the first 

 quill feather, and the tips of the four or five next black; legs dusky, 

 with a knob instead of a back toe. Some have a dusky spot behind 

 the ear, shewing that the bird is not in the most perfect state of 

 completion. 



YOUNG BIRD. 



Larus tridactylus, Ind. Orn.'u. 817. 11. (3. Lin. i. 224.2. Fn. suec. No. 157. Gm. 



Lin. i. 595. Muller, No. 161. Id. reise, 572. t. 24, 25. Faun, groenl. p. 98. 



No. G3. Faun. Helv. Borowsk. iii. 47. 2. 

 Larus naevius, Lin. i. 225. 5. 



Gavia cinerea nsevia, Bris. vi. 185. 11. t. 17. 2. Id. Svo. ii. 410. 

 Larus vulgo Terragnola, et Goletra dictus, Gerin. v. t, 529. 

 — — cinereus Bellonii, Raii, 128. A. 4. Will. 263. t. 68. 



albo cinereus torque cinereo, Aldr. iii. t. p. 77. Will. 266. t. 66. 



— —- cinereus Piscator, Klein, 137. III. 



Kuutge-Gef, Klein, Av. 148, 9—169. 4. 



Die Winter Meve, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 805. Naturf. xii. 142. 



La Mouette cendree tachetee, Buf. viii. 424.. PI. enl. 3S7. 



Tarrock, Gen. Syn. \-\. 392. Id. Sup. 268. Br. Zool. ii. No. 251. Id.fol. 142. pi. 



L. 3. Id. 1812. ii. p. 187. Arct. Zool. ii. 533. D. Id. Sup. p. 70. Fl. Scot. i. 



p. 41. 193. Will. Engl. 346. pi. 68. Bewick, ii. 231. Lewin, vi. p. 12. pi. 213. 



Walcot, i. pi. 109. Orn. Diet. 



Length fourteen inches; weight seven or eight ounces. Bill 

 black ; head, neck, and under parts, white ; near each ear, and under 

 the throat, a black spot; at the hind part of the neck a crescent of 

 black; back and scapulars bluish grey; wing coverts dusky, edged 

 with grey, some of the larger wholly so ; the exterior sides and ends 

 Of the first four quills black ; tips of the two next black ; all the rest 

 white ; the ten middle tail feathers white, tipped with black ; the 

 two outmost wholly white ; legs dusky ash-colour : instead of a back 

 toe, there is only a protuberance. This is the plumage of the second 

 season, when these birds are found at their breeding places with the 

 Kittiwake. During the first they are mottled like other young Gulls, 

 and are not complete in feather till the third year. 



