NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Glacous gull -- .Silvery gull Tarrock gull, &c. 



and hot sun-shine they seek the sea. When 

 they prepare to depart for the season, they keep 

 themselves most there, sitting on the cliffs to- 

 wards the sea-side, where the people get at them 

 sometimes with boats, and take them with fowl- 

 ing-staves." 



Strange and almost incredible as the above ac- 

 count may appear, the circumstances are too 

 well known to leave the smallest doubt of this 

 author's veracity; and the hardihood of the peo- 

 ple who inhabit the rocky shores of the northern 

 parts of Europe, in these pursuits, is almost pro- 

 verbial ; with many of them the birds so taken 

 constitute the chief part of their food, and there- 

 fore, possibly, it is necessity has taught them to 

 put danger at defiance. 



THE HERRING GULL, 4ND OTHERS. 



THE herring gull resembles the black and 

 white gull in every thing but size, except that the 

 plumage on the back and wings is more inclined 

 to ash-colour than black ; it weighs thirty ounces. 

 The glacous gull, which inhabits Norway, &c. is 

 rather larger than the herring gull, but resembles 

 it in most other respects. The silvery gull is the 

 same size as the herring gull, and not much dif- 

 ferent in plumage and manners. 



The tarrock, and kittiwake gulls, also so nearly 

 resemble each other, that some authors affirm 



