BRITISH BIRDS. 
239 
ARCTIC GULL. 
FEASER, OR LONG-TAILED LABBE. 
{Larus par afitlcus, Lin . — Le Lahhe a longue queue, Bu£) 
The length of this fpecies is twenty-one inches : 
the bill is dufky, about an inch and a half long, 
pretty much hooked at the end, but the ftrait part 
is covered with a fort of cere. The noftrils are nar- 
row, and placed near the end, like the former. In 
the male the crown of the head is black : the back, 
wings, and tail duiky : but the lower part of the 
inner webs of the quill feathers, white : the hind 
part of the neck, and the whole under fide of the 
body, white : the tail confifts of twelve feathers, 
the two middlemoft nearly four inches longer than 
the others : the legs black, fmall, and fcaly.” — 
The female is entirely brown ; but of a much 
paler colour below than above : the feathers in the 
middle of the tail only two inches longer than the 
others. Linnaeus has feparated this from its mate, 
his Larus Parafiticus^ and made it a fynonym to 
his Larus CatarraLles^ a bird as different from this 
as any other of the whole genus.’’ Pennant, 
The habits* and manners of this fpecies are the 
fame as thofe of the laft. It purfues the fmaller 
Gulls for the purpofe of robbing them of their 
prey, and like the other, is called the Dung-bird, 
from fimilar groundlefs notions. It is pretty com- 
