PLATE XLVL 



LARUS CANUS. 

 COMMON GULL. 



Anseres. 



Bill obtufe, covered with a thin membrane, broad, gibbous below 

 the bafe, fwelled at the apex. Tongue flefhy. Legs naked ; feet 

 webbed, or finned. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill ftrong, ftrait, bending down at the point, an angular promi- 

 nence on the under part of the lower mandible. Noftrils narrow, 

 in the middle of the bill. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 Bill yellow. Back grey ; the reft white. Legs dull green. 



Larus Canus. albus, dorfo cano. Linn. Syft. Nat. 



2. 136. 69. 2. edit. 10. 

 Scop. Ann. i. N° 104. 

 Brun. N° 141. 

 Georgi Reife, p. 1 70. 

 Common Gull. Penn. Br. Zool. 2. N° 249. pi. 89. 



f m 2.—Arfi. Zool. N° 458. 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. vol. 6. 378. 8. 

 Common Sea Mall, or Mew. Rati Syn. p. 127. A. 3. 



Will. Orn. p. 345. pi. 76. 



White 



