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the back in our specimen is not black. In most other 
respects it differs so little from Mr Montagu’s descrip- 
tion, that we cannot help viewing them as belonging 
to the same species. Mr H. Edmondston, of New- 
castle, surgeon, upon whose accuracy in this instance 
we can depend, and who is well acquainted with the 
various sea fowl of the Shetland Isles, considers the 
bird here figured to be the young of the Kittiwake, 
originally the Larus Tridactylus (the Tarrock) now 
the Larus Rissa of Linngeus. We are further assured 
by Mr Blackett, who farms the Fern Islands, and who 
has seen thousands of these birds, that our figure re- 
presents a Kittiwake in its first year’s plumage ; and it 
is, we believe, the first time that the young Kittiwake 
has been figured as such. 
