164 



GULL. 



Inhabits the parts about the Arctic Circle, migrating southward 

 occasionally, being found on the sea coasts of Holland and France, 

 at such times. This has so many things in common with the Black- 

 toed Gull as to be ranked with it, but it is a much larger bird, and 

 We are assured that it is a distinct species. 



24— ARCTIC GULL— Pl. clxxv. 



Larus parasiticus, Ind. Orn. ii. 819. Lin. i. 226. Fn. suec. No., 156. Ph. Tr. lxii. 



p. 421. Gm. Lin. i. 601. Fn. Amer. p. 16. Mull. No. 166. Bor. iii. 45. t. 41. 

 Lestris parasiticus, Lin. Trans, xii. 551. Tern. Man. 512. Id. Ed. 2d. 797. Frankl. 



Narr. App. 697. Parry's App. p. ccvi. 

 Catharacta parasitica, Brun. No. 127. Fn. groenl. No. 68. 



Coprotheres, Brun. No. 128. — female. 



Stercorarius longicaudus, avis arctica dictus, Gerin. v. t. 539. Bris. vi. 155. 3. — male. 



Id. 8vo. ii. 402. 

 Stercorarius, Bris. vi. 150. — female. 7d.8vo.ii. 401. Ross, Voy. Ap. p. Ivi. 

 Sterna rectricibus maximis nigris, It. Wgoth. 182. Act. Holm. 1753. 291. 

 Strundt-jager, i.e. Koiepo^s, Raii, 127. Adel. 364. t. 34. f. 5. Mart. Spitz. 87. 

 Der Strunt-jager, Bechst. Deutsch. ii. 821. Id. Ed'. 2d. iv. 375. 

 L'Abbe a longue Queue, Buf. viii. 445. PI. enl. 762.* 

 Arctic Birds, Edw. pl. 148, 149. — male and female. 

 Arctic Gull, Gen. Syn. vi. 389. 16. pl. 99. Br. Zool. ii. No. 245. pl. 87.— male & fern. 



Id. 1812. ii. 179. pl. 32. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 459. Bewick, ii. p. 239. Lewin, vi. 



pl. 207. Id. pl. xl. f. 2.— the egg. Walcot, i. pl. 116. Lin. Trans, viii. 267. 



Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



LENGTH twenty-one inches. Bill one inch and a half long, 

 pretty much hooked, and dusky; nostrils in a kind of cere; the 

 top of the head is black ; the sides of it, forehead, neck, and all 

 beneath, white ; across the breast pale dusky ; upper parts of the 

 body, wings, and tail, black, base of the quills white on the inner 

 webs ; the two middle tail feathers are nearly four inches longer than 

 the rest ; legs scaly, not very stout, and black. We have observed 

 one, which had the chin and hind part of the neck mottled dusky and 

 white ; at the lower part of the neck the dusky colour advanced 



* In this plate the tail seems to be one-third of the length of the bird. 



