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BIRDS. ANSESES. 4i.Laru3. 
WhitiOi ; head blackifh ; bill red ; legs black. 
Black-headed G. 
Inhabits America and Enrope; i8 inches long ; flies about the 
Ihores in flocks, with a continual clamour ; builds m pine 
trees. 
R.eddiOi-white ; head, orbits and neck black ; back and 
■wings cinereous ; legs fcarlet; ' 
Inhabits the lalt lakes of Siberia : lefs than the lafl. 
Whitilh ; head blackilh ; bill and legs pale red. 
Laughing G. 
2. White ; back hoary ; a brown f|30t behind the 
3, Whitilh ; head brown ■with white fpots ; back hoary ; 
lo middle tail-feathers with a black band. 
Inhabits Eurepe and America ; 15 inches long ; makes a laugh- 
ing kind Of noife ; eggs 3, greenifli-brown fpotted with 
£>5id?red ; iridt hazel ; head and chin dufley-brown, in the 
full-grown bird black ; firft 10 quill-feathers white, edged 
and tipt with black, the reft cinereous tipt with white ; 
claws black. 
B. Nojlrtls covered lAith a cere. 
ArElic G, 
1 inches long ; is very 
Two middle tail-feathers very long* 
Inhabits £artf/ic, Afta and Americas i-ri. 
rapacious, mid purlhes the leffer gulls till they diicharge 
what tl 4 have lately eaten. Which it dextroufly catches and 
devours before it reaches the water; eggs cinereous, fpotted 
with black. , . , ■ , , , j 
■Bill and legs dulky; iody above black, beneath, temples 
front white ; hredfi with a dulky band, 
E emale brown beneath. 
t^^rida. Varied with dirty-white and brown, beneath paler ; 2 mid* 
die tail-feathers a little longer. Black-teed G* 
Inhabits jEaroj!>e and America ': 16 inches long. 
Bill black ; brea/l and belly white with numerous dulky and 
yellowilh lines ; flanks and vent tranfverfely black and 
white; Toing-coverts and tail black, edged with white or 
brownilh ; legs blueifh ; toes and connefting membrane 
black. 
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