21 8 BRITISH BIRDS. 
COMMON GULL. 
COMMON SEA-MALL, OR MEW. 
{^Larus Canusy Lin . — La Grande Moiiette cmdreCf Buffi) 
The Common Gull generally meafures between 
fixteen and feventeen inches in length, thirty-fix, 
and fometimes more, in breadth, and weighs about 
one pound. The bill is pale yellow, tinged with 
green, * and an inch and three-quarters long : irides 
hazel : edges of the eye-lids red : the upper part of 
the head and cheeks, and the hinder part and fides 
of the neck, are ftreaked with dulky fpots : the 
^ Buffbn fays, the bluiffi bill and feet, always obfervable in 
this fpecies, ought to diftinguiffi it from every other, in which 
the feet are generally of a flefh-colour, more or kfs vermillion 
or livid. 
