PE ATR EX XVil. 
PA So ney BoE RN Ws. 
WIN NTER GULL. 
Meters 
Bill obtufe, covered with a thin membrane, broad, gibbous below 
the bafe, {welled at the apex. ‘Tongue flefhy. . Feet webbed, or 
finned. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill ftrong, ftrait, bending near the end; an angular prominency 
on the lower mandible. Noftrils linear. Tongue cloven. Leg and 
back toe mall, naked above the knee. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER — 
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SY NONYIMS. 
General colour white. Head and neck marked with dufky fpots. 
Back grey. Scapulars grey, fpotted with brown.. i ae bar 
acrofs the end of the tail. fe Aran 
Larus Hysernus. Lath. Suppl. Gen. Syn. 7. 296. 
Winter-Mew, or Coddy Moddy. Rai Syn. p. 130. 4 14. 
' Albin, 2, pl. 87. 
Will. Orn. p. 350. pl. 66. 
‘Winter Gull. Penn. Br. Zool. 2. pl. 248. p. 537. 
Lath, Gen, Syn. 6. p. 384. 
Gauca- 
