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The white Gulh 



Numb. LXXXIV. 



ITS Weight was eight Ounces and three quarters ; the 

 Length, from the Point of the Bill to the End of 

 the Tail, was fifteen Inches and a half; the Breadth, 

 when the Wings were expanded, thirty fix Inches ; its 

 Bill redifli and fomething bending at the Point, the lower 

 Mandible bunching out into an Angle ; the Noftrils oblong ; 

 the Eyes black, the Irides white with aCircleof Aih-co- 

 lour ; the Head, Throat, Breaft, and Belly white, with a 

 faint Tin6l:ure of yellow ; the Back and covert Feathers 

 of the Wings afh-colour ; the prime Feathers of the 

 Wings black, with their Edges and Tips white, fhooting 

 beyond the Tail about two Inches ; the Tail was five Inches 

 long, compofed of twelve white Feathers of equal Length. 



The Legs and Feet were of a fordid green, bare above 

 the Knees ; the back Toe fmall, the Claws fmall and of 

 an obfcure dusky Colour. 



This Gull and moft of the fmall Kind are very ufe- 

 full in Gardens to deftroy Worms, and Infedts: it was 

 brought me alive. I kept it fome time, feeding it 

 fometimes on fmall Pieces of Liver and the Guts of 

 Chickens ; at other Times with fmall Sprats, and Bits of 

 other frefli Filh. 



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