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BRITISH BIRDS. 
BLACK-TOED GULL. 
LABBE, DUNG-BIRD, OR BOATSWAIN. 
{^Larus Crepldatus, — Le Stercorare, BufF.) 
This bird meafures fixteen inches and a half in 
length, and three feet four inches in breadth, and 
weighs eleven ounces. * The bill is of a lead colour, 
dark at the point, from which to the brow it is lit- 
tle more than an inch in length : the noftrils are 
placed near the nail or tip in a kind of cere not 
much unlike that of the s£ua Gull, The whole 
upper and under plumage is dark brown, each fea- 
ther flightly edged and tipped with ferruginous : the 
* This is the weight given by Mr Pennant. The fpecimeti 
From which this figure and defcription were taken weighed only 
eight ounces, but it was very lean. It was fiiot on the Dur* 
ham coafi, by Mr John Foriler of Newcaftle, the firfl; of 0610° 
ber, 1800 . 
