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BRITISH BIRDS* 
BROWN-HEADED GULL. 
RED-LEGGED GULL, OR PICKMIRE. 
Four of thefe birds, two males and two females, 
were fliot out of a flock on Preftwick-Car, Nor- 
thumberland, in the middle of May, by Mr John 
Wingate, of Newcaflle, who favoured the author 
with a pair : they were of the fame kind as the one 
defcribed by Dr Heyfliam in his Catalogue of Cum- 
berland Animals, and communicated by him to Mr 
Latham. The bill and feet red ; the edges of the 
eye-lids the fame : infide of the mouth reddifli 
orange : irides hazel. The female, which was ra- 
ther lefs thfin the male, weighed about feven ounces, 
and meafured fourteen inches in length, and thirty- 
five in breadth : her head and throat were moufe- 
coloured brown, the feathers, in places, very flight- 
ly edged or fringed with white. The plumage on 
the head of the male was of the fame colour, but 
much more dappled and broken with white. In 
both, the neck, throat, and belly were white ; back 
and fcapulars of a fine pale blue grey colour : . mid- 
dle coverts of the wings light brown, edged with 
greyifli white ; the exterior webs, and part of the 
interior ones of the firll four quills, were black: 
tail white, tipped with black : toes fhort. 
Dr Heyfliam fays, “ It is clear,” from his de- 
fcription, that it neither agrees with the Tarrock 
