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with a black cere or (kin, as in the hawk kind ; 
the noftrils are placed obliquely near the end, and 
are pervious : the legs are covered with large 
black fcales, the claws ftrong, fharp and crooked, 
thofe of the inner toes remarkably fo. The fea¬ 
thers on the head, neck, breaft, and whole upper 
fide of the body and wings, are of a very deep 
brown, marked with ruft color in their middle : 
the upper part of the quii feathers are dufky, 
the lower parts and the fhafts white : the tail 
confifts of twelve feathers white at their roots, 
and dufky all above ; the inner coverts of the 
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wings deep brown, the breaft, belly, and vent 
feathers, mixed with afh-color and red. This 
bird belongs to Scotland and the North of Eng¬ 
land. What Mr. Ray, and Mr. Smith * fuppofe 
to be the Cornijh Gannet , we {hall fhew in another 
place to be a different bird. Mr. Macatdy f men¬ 
tions a gull that makes great havoke among the 
eggs and fea fowl of St. Kilda ; it is there called 
Stuliac : his defcription fuits that of the herring 
Gull; but we fufpe£f he confounds thefe two 
kinds, and has transferred the manners of this 
fpecies to the latter. 
* Hijl. Kerry, f Hiji. St. Kilda. p. 158. 
SPECIES III. 
JVil. orn. 345. 
Rail fyn. av. 127. 
HIS gull weighs upwards of thirty 
ounces : the length twenty-three in¬ 
ches ; its breadth fifty-two. The bill 
yellow, and the lower mandible marked with an 
orange colored fpot: the irides ftraw color : the 
edges of the eye-lids red : the head, neck, and 
tail, white : the back, and covert of the wings, afh- 
colored : the upper part of the five firft quil fea¬ 
thers are black, 1 larked with a white fpot near 
their end : the legs of a pale flefh-color. Thefe 
birds breed on the ledges of rocks that hang over 
The Herring Gull. 
Larus grifeus. Brijfon av. VI. 162. 
Lams fufcus. Lin. Jyft. 136. 
the fea : they make a large neft of dead grafs, 
and lay three eggs, of a dirty white, fpotted with 
black. The young are afh-colored; fpotted with 
brown ; they do not come to their proper color 
the firft year: this is common to other gulls ; 
which has greatly multiplied the fpecies among 
authors, who are inattentive to thefe particulars. 
This gull is a great devourer of fifh, efpecially of 
that from which it takes its name : it is a conftant 
attendant on the nets, and fo bold as to feize its 
prey before the fifhermens faces. 
SPECIES IV. The brown and white Gull. 
Great grey gull, the cornifh wagel. 
JVil. orn. 349. 
Raii fyn. av. 130. 
^HE bird we examined, weighed thirty- 
two ounces : the length was one foot 
eleven inches $ the breadth four feet 
eight: the bill black, and near three inches long. 
The whole plumage of the head and body, above 
and below, is a mixture of white, afh-color, and 
brown : the laft color occupies the middle of each 
feather ; and in Tome birds is pale, in others dark : 
the quil feathers black : the lower part of the tail 
Larus varius. Brijfon av. VI. 167. 
Lab. 15. 
is mottled with black and white ; towards the end 
is a brown black bar, and the tips are white : the 
legs are of a dirty white. 
This fpecies is called by fome the Dung hunter ; 
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being faid to purfue the leffer gulls fo long till 
they mute for fear; and that it catches up and 
devours the excrements before they drop into the 
water. 
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