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anT_edwkh a fmalfciaw : the inner fore-toe the leaft : The Claws blacky that of the 

 middle Toe (harp on the inner fide. 



The Cuts were long _ twenty eight inches ] having many fpiral revolutions : The 

 ftomach mufculous : The Liver divided into two Lobes : The Gall-bladder large. It 

 frequents moid Meadows, Fens, and Rivers, andfometimes plowed Lands too many 

 miles diftant from the Sea. 



This Bird in many things comes near to the Larus major of * Aldrovand, but differs * ornhfo ,. 

 fromitin the colour of the Eyes, Bill, and Feet, the Bill and Feet in Aldrovands bird chap.^' 

 being yellow. But the defcription of this greater Gull [ Larus major ~] in Aldrovand 

 anfwers exactly to that bird which Leonard Baltner hath painted under the title of 

 Bin Winder-Meb : wherefore we will here fubjoyn his defcription. 



§. V. 



* The Larus major [ Greater Gull~] of Aldrovand, called by Leonard Baltner, Ein 

 Winder-Meb, that is, A winter Mew. 



FRom the point of the Bill to the end of the Wings it was almoft two fpans long t 

 Had a very great and thick Head, particoloured of white and cinereous: Alio 

 a large full Breaft of the fame colour, but more dilute, efpecially towards the lower 

 belly: A thick yellowifh Bill, black at the tip, and very (harp, in the upper Chap 

 whereof are long Nofthrils. It gapes very wide. The Pupil of the Eye is black 5 the 

 Irk yellow, or ihining like gold 5 the yellow is encom palled with a circle of black, 

 the black with a white, and laftly, the white with a grey or a(h- colour. The Wings 

 are of a colour mingled of white, * grey, and brown, or chefnut, to the quils, which * cinereoui 

 on the outfide are dusky or blackifh, on the infide for the mod part cinereous, and 

 t exceed the Tail by an hand-breadth: The longeft of them are more than a fpan. t Reach be- 

 The Tail it felf is four inches and an half long and better, all cinereous, except a crofs yon ' 

 bar or border of black, near the end, of more than an inch broad. The Thighs are 

 cinereous, and near the Legsbare of feathers : The Legs of a good length, and {len- 

 der, as became a light bird, of a pale yellow colour. The Feet, Toes, and inter- 

 vening membranes alfo yellow : The Claws black, (hortand crooked: The back-to? 

 confpicuous enough, armed alfo with a claw. 



§. VI. . 



* Baltner . great grey Sea- Mew, the fame perchance with ours defcribed in the third place, 



Rom the point of the Bill to the end of the Wings it was i~ of a Strasburgh Ell 

 long : Between the tips of the Wings extended two Ells broad. It weighed 

 fcarce a pound. The length of its foot from the feathers to the Claws was a quarter 

 of a yard : Of its guts feven quarters. Its Bill and Feet were brown Q braunlecht. ] The 

 Picture reprefents them of a dark purple. The colour of the whole body was grey 

 [_grau,~] I take this to be no other than the great grey Gull defcribed in the third place,- 

 but then the colour of the Legs is mi-taken. 



§. VII. 



* Aldrovands Cepphus. 



T's not like a Gull in any thing fave the Bill and fhape of the Legs and Feet, for in 

 other things it rather refembles a Duck. From the Bill to the end of the Tail it is a 

 fpan and half long, and becaufekhath abundance of feathers it feems to be corpulent, 

 whereas the matter is nothing fo. The Bill is of a moderate both length and thick- 

 nefs, of a horn colour, on the fides of the Mandibles red, at the tip (which is hooked) 

 black. The Eyes little, for the moft part red, encompalled with a white circle. The 

 Head ("which is fomethinglefs than in Gulls) together with the Neck, Breaft, Belly, ^. 

 Thighs, and Rump are variegated with white and * brown fpots, with a mixture of us « 

 bay and yellow. The Wings are black, the ends of the feathers being yellowiih. 

 The greater feathers of the tail are alfo black : The Legs and (hanks greenifh 5 the 

 Feet and membrane connecting the Toes dusky, 



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