3?o O^aClfHOLOQY. Book III. 



to the brown, and to the afh-colour in the Wings and Back.] The feathers of the 

 Back are black in the middle, and afri-coloured about the edges. The Rump-feather^ 

 incumbent on the Tail are for the moft part white, only fpotted in the middle with 

 brown. The Chin is white. Each Wing hath thirty quil-feathers, all black. The 

 tips of theleffer rows of Wing-feathers in fome are black, in fome cinereous. The 

 Tail is fix inches and an half long, confiding of a dozen feathers, the outmoft tips of 

 which are white, then fucceeds a crofs bed or bar of black, of about two inches 

 broad: The lower part is varied with tranfverfe bars of white and black, the white 

 alfo fpotted with black. 



The Bill is almoft three inches long, all black, the upper Chap bending a little 

 downward, and as it were hooked : The lower between the angle and the tip under- 

 neath bunches out into a knob. The Nofthrils oblong: The Eyes grey: The Neck 

 fhort : The Head great, which in walking or (landing ftill it always draws down to its 

 ihoulders, as do alfo other Gulls, fo that one would think they had no necks of a 

 whitiih grey colour. Its Legs and Feet are white, or white with a little duskith- 

 nefs : The hind-toe fmall: The Claws black, that of the middle toe iharpon the 

 infide. 



It hath a huge Liver, divided in two : a Gall annexed to the right Lobe. The Sto- 

 mach more mufculous than in carnivorous birds: The blind guts friort and little, yet 

 turgid, and full of Excrement. 



The Cormfi men related to us for a certain truth, that this Bird is wont to p'erfc- 

 cute and terrifie the Sea-Swallows, and other fmall Gulls fo long, till they mute for 

 fear, and then catches their excrements before they fall into the water, and greedily 

 devours them as a great dainty : This fome of them affirmed themfelves to have 

 feen. 



The Larus albo-cinereus torque cinereo of Aldrovand is very like to, if not the fame 

 with this. On the Breaft and Belly it is of a colour from white inclining to cinereous, 

 as alfo on the upper fide of the Wings. It hath a very great Head, encompaffed with 

 a kind of afh-coloured wreath, which yet reaches not to the Neck behind, but turns 

 up to the middle of the crown. Along the Neck and Back it declines from grey to 

 blue. The covert-feathers of the Wings are of a colour mixt of white and cine- 

 reous. The longer quil-feathers are black, reaching an inch further than the Tail. 

 The Tail is alh-coloured, and black at the end. The Legs, Bill,, and Eyes red, yet the 

 tip of the Bill black. 



§. IV. 



The Winter-Mew^alled in Cambridge-jlme theCoddy-moddy. Lams fufcus five Hybernus. 



IT weighs well nigh feventeen ounces. In length from the tip of the Bill to the 

 end of the Claws or Tail it was by meafure eighteen inches and better. The ex- 

 tremes of the Wings extended were forty five inches diftant. The lower part of the 

 Throat about the Craw is a little dusky, elfe the under-fide of the body is all white. 

 The Head is white, fpotted with brown: The Neck brown.- The middle of the Back 

 cinereous. The long fcapular feathers varied with brown fpots. The Rump is white. 

 The Tail more than five inches long, made up of twelve feathers. The extreme tips 

 of the Tail-feathers are white 5 then fucceeds a black bar an inch and an half broad, 

 the reft of the Tail being white. The outmoft quil-feather of the Wing is of a dark 

 brown or black colour , thefecond aih-coloured on the inner fide : In the following 

 the black part is leffened by degrees, till in the fixth and feventh the tips only remain 

 black. The tips of the eighth and all the following are white. The eleventh fea- 

 ther is wholly cinereous, yet in the middle ofthefnaft, not far from the tip,darker: 

 In the two next is a brown fpot. The fucceeding have alfo their exteriour edges 

 black. In the twenty third the blacknels difappears again, fo that the twenty fourth 

 and twenty fifth are wholly cinereous. Of the laft or thofe next the body the one 

 half is black. The lefler covert-feathers in the upper part of the Wing are of a mixt 

 colour of cinereous and black : Thofe on the underfide of the Wing are white. 



The Bill is more than two inches long 5 from the Nofthrils to the end whitiih : The 

 upper Mandible longer and crooked, the nether underneath bunches out into an angle 

 or knob, as in other great Gulls : The Tongue white, cloven, reaching to the end 

 of the Bill: TheEyes hazel-coloured, and furnifhed with ni&ating membranes : The 

 Ears great : The Legs and Feet of a dusky or greenifh white: The back-toe little, 



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