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Thefe birds occur on the fea fliore and in the vicinities of great 

 rivers in various parts of Britain, but it is faid not in any confider- 

 able plenty. In fevere winters they have been known to vifit the 

 banks of the Thames in company with others of the Gull tribe, and 

 one ibot near Richmond, about twenty years ago, by a well-informed 

 fportfman was tranfmitted to us as a rarity. Within a few years paft 

 they appear to have become more common about the banks of the 

 Thames, and in that of 1812 in particular, when they occurred in 

 fome abundance. It may not be amifs to add, that in the fummer of 

 the year 1801, we were favoured with a recent fpecimen of the Wagel 

 ({hot in Cornwall) from the late Mr. Hutchins, a very intelligent 

 Ornithologift, the plumage of which did not differ from that of the 

 Wagels {hot in winter^ as before mentioned. 



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