BRITISH BIRDS. 
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all the other parts of its plumage, and the tips of 
the quills, are white : the legs pale flefh colour. 
Gulls of this fpecies are common in the northern 
parts of Europe, the rocky illes of the North Sea, 
and in Greenland, but are only thinly fcattered on 
the coafts of England, where they, however, fome- 
times remain to breed on the higheft cliffs which 
overhang the fea : their eggs are of a round fhape, 
of a dark olive colour, thinly marked with dufky 
fpots, and quite black at the thicker end. Their 
cry of kac, kac, kac, quickly repeated, is roughly 
hoarfe and difagreeable. 
Mr Pennant fays, I have feen on the coafl: of 
Anglefea a bird that agrees in all refpeds with this, 
except in fize, in wanting the black fpot on the bill, 
and in the colour of the legs, which in this are of a 
bright yellow : the extent of the wings is only four 
feet five : the length only twenty-two inches : the 
weight one pound and a half. This fpecies, or 
perhaps variety, (for I dare not affert which) rambles 
far from the fea, and has been fhot at Bullftrode, 
in Middlefex.’’ One of this fort was fliot by Mr 
Latham on the Thames, near Dartford, and mea- 
fured full two feet in length. 
