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LARUS FUSCUS. 
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. 
White ; back brown ; legs yellow. 
Larus fuscus, Lin. Gme. 
Goeland a pieds jannes, Tern. 
Lesser black-backed Gull, Mont. 
Herring Gull, Turlon, &c. 
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Mantle of a slate black ; legs yellow ; 
length of the tarsus two inches one or two 
lines ; wings extend about two inches be- 
yond the extremity of the tail. The beak 
is shorter, and not so large in proportion as 
that of the preceding species. (Temminck.) 
The Lesser black-backed Gull has been 
confounded by every writer with the im- 
mediately preceding species, until Mon- 
tagu published his excellent work on Bri- 
tish Ornithology, and even that author 
