BRITISH BIRDS, 220 
KITTIWx^KE, 
OR, ANNETT. 
{^Larus RUfay Linnaeus.) 
The Kittiwake meafures from fourteen to fevcn- 
teen inches in length, thirty-eight to forty in breadth, 
and weighs generally about fourteen ounces. The 
bill is of a greenifh yellow : the infide of the mouth 
and edges of the eye-lids are orange : irides dark ; 
the head, neck, under parts and tail, pure white : 
back and wings a lead or alh-coloured grey ; the ex- 
terior edge of the firfl quill feather, and the tips of 
the next four or five are black : legs dulky : hinder 
toe not bigger than a fmall wart. Some fpecimens 
of the Kittiwake are defcribed as having the auri- 
iculars tipped with black. 
