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The Coddy Moddy, Larus hybernus. 



Numb. LXXXVII. 



IT S Weight was ilxteen Ounces ; its Length, from the Point of the 

 Bill to the End of the Claws, eighteen Inches ; Breadth, when 

 the Wings were extended, forty four Inches. The lower part of the 

 Throat is a little dusky, eife the under fide of the Body is all white ; 

 the Head is white, in the hind part cinereous, having a tranfverfe black 

 Spot behind the Eye, and another large Mark like a Crefcent on the 

 back part of the Neck, encompaffing it above half way ; the Back ci- 

 nereous; the fcapular Feathers varied with black Spots; the Rump is 

 white, the Tail live Inches long made up of twelve Feathers ; the ex- 

 treme Tips black, the reft of the Tail white ; the outmoft Quill-Fea- 

 thers of the Wings are black with cinereous Tips and Edges ; the lefTer 

 covert Feathers of the Wings are of a mixt Colour of cinereous and 

 black, thofe on the under fide of the Wing are white. 



The Bill is more than two Inches long, the upper Mandible of a 

 brownifh Afli-colour, longer than the nether and crooked at the End; 

 the nether underneath black, and bunching out into an Angle or Knob, 

 as in other great Gul/s ; the Tongue white, cloven, reaching to the End 

 of the Bill; the Eyes hazel-coloured, and furniflied with nidlating Mem- 

 branes; the Ears great; the Legs and Feet of a dusky greenifh Colour; 

 the back Toe little, armed with a fmall Claw, the inner fore Toe the 

 leaft; the Claws black, that of the middle Toe fharp on the inner fide. 



The Guts were long, being twenty eight Inches, having many fpiral 

 Revolutions; the Stomach mufculous; the Liver divided into two Lobes, 

 the Gall-bladder large. It frequents moift Meadows, Fens, and Rivers, 

 and fometimes plowed Lands many Miles diftant from the Sea. 





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