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GULL. 
GULL-BILLED TERN (^Sterna Anglica, Montagu.) 
* Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2.]p. 744. — Mont. Supp. Orn.;,Dict. — Flem. Br. Anim. p. 
143. 
The hill of this species is about an inch and a half long-, thick, long, 
and angulated on the under mandible, like the bill of the gull, 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 general plumage 
above is cinereous, and the tail and its upper coverts hke 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 (Z arus Canus, Linnjeus.) 
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, Raxi, 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. — Ib. 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. — Ib. fob 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. — Pult. 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- 
