4 5° 2^5 Hiftory ^ANIMALS, 
The head is black, and the anterior part of the neck or throat is alfo black half 
way down: the middle of the back is grey ; the heck, the breaft, and the belly are 
whitethe wings are confiderably long ; their covering feathers are grey, but the 
long feathers, which are twenty-nine in each wing, are variegated with" black and 
white : the tail is moderately long, and is even at the end, not forked, and is through¬ 
out of a pure white: the legs are flender and delicate; they are not very long, and 
their colour is a blood-red : the claws are black 5 the toe behind is very fhort and in- 
confiderable. 
t This beautiful bird is very frequent about our fea-coafts, and in fome places at a 
diftance from the fea; it builds on the ground in any accidental hollows. All the 
writers on birds have defcribed it. Aldrovand mentions it twice • once under the name 
of Larus cinereus Ornithologi, and another time under that of Larus cinereus tertius. 
Willughby 5 and Ray continue thefe names, and call it alfo Cepphus Turned et Gefneri* 
Larus dorfo ferrugtmo , peBore pallide fufco . 
Lhe Larus , with a ferrugineous back , and a pale brown belly , 
This is an extreamly fingular fpecies ;Jt’s whole afpedt, in fome degree, approach¬ 
ing to that of fome of the land birds of prey, as well as it’s colour ; it is equal to 
the common duck in fize : the head is large, and flatted on the crown ; the eyes are 
very bold and piercing in their afpedt, and their iris is of a hazel colour: the beak is 
very large and ftrong; it is fhorter than in the other fpecies, but is turned down at 
the end, juft like the beaks of the hawk-kind, and in the fame manner has a yellow 
membrane invefting it, quite down to the noftrils: the legs alfo approach to thofe of 
the hawk-kind ; they are robuft and fhort, and the claws are long, ftrong, and 
hooked, and fharp, quite in the manner of thofe birds of prey, and wholly unlike 
thofe of all the web-footed birds. 
The whole upper part of the bird is of a deep, rufty, ferrugineous colour, much 
like that of the common buzzard : the breaft and belly are alfo brown, but paler: the 
wings are very large, and their principal feathers are black; the tail alfo is moderately 
long and black : the upper part of fome of the larger feathers of the wings is white, 
but there is nothing of this in the tail, for that is altogether black. 
This fingular bird, which, if it were not for the protuberance on the under part of 
the beak, one could fcarce fuppofe of this genus, is frequent about the coafts of the 
weftern parts of England. Willughby, Ray, and fome others have called it Cata- 
radtes nofter. Many of the foreign writers on birds have omitted the mention of it. 
Our common people in Cornwal call it the'Gannet. It follows the fhoals of pilchards 
and fome other fifh, flying at a diftance over them, and at times precipitating itfelf 
downward with great violence upon them. 
Larus dorfo cinereo , peBore albidiore . 
The Larus , with a grey back, and a whiter breaft. 
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pep dull. 
This is a large and a very beautiful bird ; it wholly refembles the little grey Gull in 
form, but in colouring, as well as bignefs, it is extreamly different; the bignefs is 
about that of our widgeon: the head is fmall, and flatted on the crown, and it is 
alfo a little comprefled at the fldes: the eyes are large, and they have a dull or dead 
look, not that piercing afpedt which fome of the others have: their iris is of a pale 
grey, and the pupil is fcarce black, but rather of a deep olive : the beak is an inch and 
a half long, and is black throughout; the upper chap is fomewhat arcuated in it’s 
whole form, and is particularly hooked at the end more than in moft of the other 
fpecies: the lower chap has a confiderable large protuberance between the angle and 
the apex : the noftrils are very confpicuous; they are of an oblong form, and ftand 
very high toward the bafe of the beak. 
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