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BRITISH BIRDS. 
it is curious to obferve how fuch as are near the 
breakers will mount upon the furface of the water, 
and run fplafliing towards the fummit of the wave 
to catch the objeft of their purfuit. This fpecies 
alfo, at particular feafons, reforts to the inland parts 
of the country to feed upon worms, kc. Some 
perfons who live near the fea commonly eat this, 
as well as various other kinds of Gulls, which they 
defcribe as being good food, when they have under- 
gone a certain fweetening procefs before cooking, 
fuch as burying them in frefh mould for a day, of 
wafliing them in vinegar. 
