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452 The Hiftory of A N I M A L §* 
Larus grifeo et alho variegatus, rojlro flavicantL 
The grey and white Laras, with a yellow beak. 
This is of the fize of our widgeon, and at a diftance appears to be all over white: 
the head is remarkably large and rounded ; it is not at all either depreffed or com- 
prefled in any part: the ears are very large and confpicuous ; the eyes are alfo very 
large and bright: their iris is of a beautiful gold yellow, and the pupil black as jet: 
the beak is about an inch and a quarter long, confiderably thick, very much arched 
and hooked, and pointed at the extremity : the upper chap is of a beautiful yellow, 
except juft at the point where it is black; the under chap is entirely yellow, and has 
a large protuberance : the noftrils are oblong, large, and confpicuous. 
The head is white, variegated with moderately large and irregular fpots of grey: 
the back is of a very pale colour, almoft white, only variegated, in a clouded manner, 
with a pale grey : the breaft and belly are alfo of the fame colour, only with lefs of 
the grey; the wings are very large, and fpread to a great breadth; they alfo have a 
great deal of white in them, but the long feathers are elegantly variegated not only 
with grey, but a chefnut brown : the tail is confiderably long, and is of a pale colour 3 
almoft white in the greater part, but dulky at the extremity. 
The legs are moderately long, very flender, and yellow : the thighs are naked half 
the way up; the feet are webbed; the toes are long and yellow, and the claws fhort 
and crooked : the hinder toe in this fpecies is not inconfiderable, as in many of the 
others, but is moderately large, and armed with a claw like the others. 
This fpecies is met with on fome of our coafts, but it is not common with us, 
though it is very much fo in many other parts of Europe. Aldrovand calls it Larus 
major; and Baltner, Larus hybernus. Willughby has preferved both thefe names. 
Larus alho et fufco variegatus, alis nigricantibus. 
The hrown and white Larus, with black wings, 
This is an extreamly beautiful bird ; it is very different from all the reft of the Lari 
in it’s general form and colouring, and, except that the Angularity of the protube¬ 
rance under the beak, and the other lefs confpicuous generical characters, referred it to 
them, would be eafily miftaken for a fpecies of fome very different clafs: the head is 
moderately large, but not fo remarkably fo as in many of the Lari, nor fo remarka¬ 
bly fmall as in fome of the others. The bird appears of the bignefs of a large tame 
pigeon, but this is owing to the feathers ftanding loofe, for the body is, in reality, very 
fmall and inconfiderable: the figure of the head is fomewhat Angular; it is a little 
compreffed at the Aides, but is remarkably prominent on the crown: the eyes are 
fmall, but they are very bright and piercing in their afpedl; their iris is of a fiery 
red, the pupil black : the beak is an inch in length, and moderately thick ; it is of a 
deep gloffy brown, or horn colour, in the body, but fomewhat reddifh at the fides, and 
black at the point. 
The head, neck, back, and breaft are all of a very elegantly variegated hue ; the 
colours are white and a chefnut brown, but there are alfo fome fpots of yellow in dif¬ 
ferent places. 
The wings are moderately long, and their principal feathers are black, and their 
tips yellow. This occafions a very Angular, as well as a very elegant, appearance, 
when they are clofed, as well as when the bird is flying : the legs are flender, and of 
a yellowifli-brown ; the feet are webbed, and the hinder toe is fmall, and has no claw. 
This fpecies is not frequent with us, but I have had a preferved fpecimen of it fen£ 
up from Scarborough, fhot fomewhere in that neighbourhood. Aldrovand has de~ 
fcribed 
