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White web -footed Gull. Albin. 2. pi. 84. 



La grande Mouette cendree. Brif. Orn. 6. p. 182. 10. pL 16. fig. 2* 



Buff. OiJ. 8. p. 428.— PL enl. 977. 

 Gabbiano minore* Zinan. 115. 



This fpecles is the moft common of all the gulls. It breeds on 

 the rocks and cliffs on our fhores and rivers which are contiguous 

 to the fea, and is feen in vaft numbers on the Thames in fpring and 

 Winter, picking up the fmall fifh, worms> &c. left by the tide. 



It is feen as far north as Iceland, Lapland, and the Ruffian Lakes % 

 and alfo on the coaft of Newfoundland. It is an inhabitant of the 

 warmer climates of the fouth, as Greece, fome parts of Italy, and 

 mod of the mores of the Mediterranean Sea* 



The length is feventeen inches : breadth thirty-fix inches, and 

 weight one pound. The eggs are two inches and a half in length ; 

 of a deep olive brown, marked with irregular deep red reddifh 

 blotches # . 



They differ a little in their markings : Mr. Latham mentions one, 



the head and half the neck of which were marked with fhort dufky 

 flreaks. 



Lath. Gen. Syr, 



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