234 GULL. 



GULL-BILLED TERN {Sterna Anglica, Montagu.) 

 * Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2.] p. 744.— Mont. Supp. Orn. Diet.— Flem. Br. Anim. p. 

 143. 



The bill of this species is about an inch and a half long-, thick, long-, 

 and angulated on the under mandible, like the bill of the g-ull, and 

 wholly black ; the upper part of the head, taking in the eyes, is also 

 black, and extends down the back of the head, and part of the neck, 

 with two or three white feathers on the crown ; the g-eneral plumage 

 above is cinereous, and the tail and its upper coverts like the back, 

 the outer feather on each side only being white ; quills hoary, the tips 

 of the first five black, for an inch or more, without the slightest margin 

 of white on that part ; the wings and tail are dark grey, the former 

 three inches longer than the latter, the inner webs, which are white, 

 not quite reaching the margin, the edge being dusky for half the 

 length of the feathers. The legs rather exceed two inches in length, 

 from the heel to the knee ; their colour rufous-black ; the toes rather 

 long, especially the middle toe, and the claws unusually straight. In 

 winter the head is white, with black marks before and behind the eye. 



This species, first detected by Montagu, has since been observed in 

 the eastern parts of Europe and in the United States.* 



GULL (Larus Canus, Linnaeus.) 



Larus canus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 224. 3 — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 596 Ind. Orn. 2. p. 



815. 9. — Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. p. 771 — Larus cinereus minor, Raii, Syn. p. 



127. A. 3.— Will. p. 262. t. 76.— Larus cyanorhynchus, Meyer, 2. p. 453 



Gavia cinerea, Briss. 6. p. 175. 8. t. 16. f. 1. — lb. 8vo. 2. p. 408 — Larus 

 hybernus, Gmel. Syst 1. 596. — Le Grand Mouette cendree, Buff. Ois. 7. p. 384. 



—White web-footed Gull, Albin, 2. t. 84 Common Gull, Br. Zool. 2. No. 



249. t. 89. f. 2 lb. fol. 142 Arct. Zool. 2. No. 458.— Ib. Supp. p. 70 



Will. (Angl.) p. 345. t. 76.— Lath. Syn. 6. p. 378. 8 Lewin's Br. Birds, 6. t. 



215 Wale. Syn. 1. t. 110—Puit. Cat. Dorset, p. 18 — Don. Br. Birds, 2. t. 



46. Flem. Br. Anim. p. 140 Winter Mew, Lath. Syn. 6. p. 384 Mont. 



Diet, and Supp. 



Provincial. — Sea Maw. Sea Mall. Sea Mew. 



This species weighs fifteen or sixteen ounces ; length about seventeen 

 inches; bill yellow; irides hazel. The head, neck, tail, and under parts of 

 the body, white ; the back, scapulars, and wing coverts, ash-colour, the 

 former tipped with white ; the primary quills black ; the two or three 

 first have a spot of white across the ends, but the tips are black, the 

 rest are tipped with white ; the secondaries like the back, tipped with 

 white ; legs dull white, or tinged with green. 



This is the description of the bird maturely feathered. In the first 

 year it is more or less mottled all over with brown and white, with a 

 dusky bar across the end of the tail. In the second year the head, 

 neck, under parts, and tail, are white, the two first streaked with dusky ; 

 the last retains the bar at the end ; the back and scapulars are ash- 



