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The Kittiwake is said to inhabit and 
breed on the cliffs about Flamborough 
Head, the Bass Isle, the vast rocks near 
the Earth of Slains in the county of Aber- 
deen, Priestholm Isle, Fowl's-heaugh near 
Montross, and other parts of Scotland. 
In the Isle of May, at the mouth of the 
Forth, the rocks are covered with them, 
being unmolested till the young are fit to 
take, which, together with the Gannet, 
and other rock birds, are eaten by the in- 
habitants before dinner, as a whet to their 
appetites. 
Length* of the tarsus one inch four 
lines ; in place of a back toe, a stump 
without a claw. 
The young of the first year have the 
head, neck, and ail the under parts whit- 
ish, but the white is marked in front of the 
eyes by a black crescent ; over the ears a 
large patch of deep -bluish ash -colour ; to- 
wards the back of the head a blackish spot ; 
* Terominck lays great stress upon this character in the 
Gull species; we have copied his measures throughout tbe 
genus ; they are of course French. 
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