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o\s\ciTHOLogr. b ook hi. 



* Sweet- 

 bread. 



* Sure the 

 Pifture is falfe 

 in tIiis 3 for no- 

 thing ofgreen 

 appears in 

 any Gull we 

 ever yet fa w. 

 •f A Strasburgb 

 yard is not 

 much above 

 half a yard 

 Englilh. 



feather to the bottom being black, but the very bottom afh-coloured. The tip alfo of 

 the third was white j from the tip the upper half of the feather was black, the lower 

 afh-coloured. The three next had alfo whitetips, butthe black part was (till fhorter 

 and (horter, or narrower and narrower in the following than the foregoing feathers, 

 till in the fixthit became fcarce a quarter of an inch broad. All the reft of the quiis 

 were afh-coloured, with white tips. The Tail was fix inches long, not forked, made 

 up of twelve feathers. 



The Liver was large, divided into two Lobes: The Gall yellow: The* Pancreas 

 great : Themufcles of the Gizzard not fo thick and ftrong as in granivorous birds 5 

 within which we found grafs and Beetles. It is a gregarious bird, frequenting Mea- 

 dows, and the banks of Lakes. That which we defcribed we (hot on the bank of 

 the Lake of Bala, in Merioneth-fiire in Wales, commonly called Pimble-mear, through 

 which the River Dee, on which Chefier is built, runs, and they fay mixes not its 

 waters with thofe of the Lake. 



It differs from the Herring-gull, 1. In that it is lefs. 2. In the colour of the Bill ; 

 From Bellonius his afh-coloured Gull, 1. In that it is bigger : 2. That it hath a back- 

 toe armed with a Claw. 



§. IV. 



* Baltners great ajh-coloured Sea- Mew , perchance onr Pewit. 



T He whole body (at Ieaft on the upper fide is of a dark afh-colour or bluifh, as 

 are alio the Tail and lefier quil-feathers, for the greater are black. The 

 crown or top of the Head is black, with an obfeure tin&ure of green ( if the * Picture 

 deceive us not. ) The Bill ftreight, of a red-lead colour : The Legs and Feet black : 

 The Wings very long, and when gathered up reaching beyond the end of the Tail. 

 The length of the Bird from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail was a t Strafi 

 burghYaxd or more : The breadth from tip to tip of the Wings extended two yards. 

 The Leg fo far as it was bare [ from the feathers to the end of the Claws ] a quarter 

 of a yard long : The Gutsfeven quarters. I fufpect this Bird was no other than the 

 Cepph/tr of Turner and Gefner, that is, our Pewit : But then the Legs are painted of a 

 wrong colour, for in the Pewit they are red : fo is alfo the Tail. 



* Or Adams 

 Apple, 



§. v. 



Bellonius his afo-colouredGnll, called inComwal, Tarrock. 



IN bignefs it exceeds not a common Pigeon, neither is it much different in the lhape 

 of its body, lave that its Head is bigger. It weighs feven ounces : Its length from 

 the point of the Bill to the end of the Tail is almoft fixteen inches. Its Wings ex- 

 tended were by meafure full thirty fix inches. Its Tail almoft five inches long, not 

 forcipate, confifting of twelve feathers. The under-fide of the body was all purely 

 white: As for the upper fide, the Head and Neck were white, fave that at the Ears 

 on each fide was a black fpot : The lower part of the Neck was black : The middle of 

 the Back and the Shoulders afh-coloured : The Tail white,only the tips of the feathers 

 for about an inch black : Yet the outmoft feather on each fide was all white. The 

 four outmoft quil-feathers were above half way black: The two next to thefe had 

 only black tips, being elfe white. The feventh had only a black fpot near the tip: 

 All the reft were white: In brief, the ridge, upper or fore-part of the Wing extend- 

 ed was all along black 5 which colour near the Back was dilated into a large and 

 broad ftroak, [or fpot.] The Bill was more than an inch long, fomething arcuate 

 or bending downwards, efpeciajly toward the point, which is (harp, of a black co- 

 lour. The lower Mandible, not far from the tip, bunched out into an angle under- 

 neath, as in the reft of this kind. Its Legs and Feet were of am or livid colour : Its 

 Claws black. It hath fome rudiment of a hind-toe rather than a perfecf toe, for it 

 is only a carneous knob without any Claw. The Legs alfo are deftitute of feathers 

 for about the length of an inch above the knees. 



The colour of the Mouth within and the Tongue is like that of an *AJJyrian Apple, 

 asBefc/^fhathobferved. The Tail is five inches long, made up of twelve almoft 

 equal feathers: The number of quil-feathers in each Wing twenty eight, or twenty- 

 nine. 



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