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BIRDS. 
the back, and fcapuiars are of a bluilh grey : the 
leficr coverts of the wings, dufky, edged with 
grey ; the larger next to them, of the fame co¬ 
lor ; the reft grey : the exterior fides, and ends 
of the four firft quil feathers are black : the tips 
of the two next black; all the reft wholly white : 
the ten middle feathers of the tail white, tipt 
with black; the two outmoft quite white : the 
legs of a dulky aih-color. In lieu of the back 
toe, it has only a fmall protuberance, which is a 
certain character of this kind. 
SPECIES VIII The Pewit Gull. Plate £ 5. 
Pewit, or black cap; fea crow; mire 
crow. t'Vil. orn. 347. 
Rail fyn. av. 128. 
Pewit. Plott. hi ft. Staff. 231. 
Puit. Fuller’s Brit, worthies 318. 
p —1[ \ H ESE birds breed in vaft numbers, 
in the ifiands of certain pools in the 
county of Stafford ; and, as Doclor 
Gaviaridibunda Phoenicopos. Briffon 
av. VI. 196. 
Larus atricilla. ? Lin. fyft. 136. 
Cepphus Turneri. Gefner av. 249. 
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on his death, they never fail to fhift their quar¬ 
ters for a certain time. 
Fuller tells us, in another on the Effex ihores. 
They are birds of paflage ; refort there in the 
fpring ; and after the breeding feafon difperfe to 
the fea coafts : they make their neft on the 
ground, with rallies, dead grafs, and the like ; 
and lay from four to fx eggs, of a dirty olive 
color, marked with black. The young were 
formerly highly efteemed, and numbers were 
annually taken, and fattened for the table. Plott 
gives a wonderful account of their attachment to 
the lord of the (oil they inhabite 5 mfomuch that 
The notes of thefe gulls diftinguiih them from 
any others; being like a hoarfe laugh. Their 
weight is about ten ounces : their length fifteen 
inches $ their breadth thirty-feven. Their bills 
and legs are of a fanguine red : the heads and 
throats black or duiky : neck, and all the under 
fide of the body, and the tail, a pure white : back, 
and wings aih-colored : tip, and exterior edge of 
the firft quil feather black ; the reft of that fea¬ 
ther white ; and the next to that tipt with black, 
and marked with the fame on the inner web. 
SPECIES IX. The fmall brown Gull. 
The brown Tern. J'Vil. orn. 352. 
Rail fyn . av. 131. 9 
R. Ray has left us the following ob- 
fcure account of this bird ; commu¬ 
nicated to him by Mr. Johnfon , a 
Torkjhire Gentleman. “ The whole under-fide is 
white 5 the upper brown : the wings partly 
brown, partly afh-color: the head blacx . the 
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tail not forked : thefe birds fly in companies.” 
Befides this, Sibbald has left us the name and 
figure of a gull that breeds in the Bafs ifle ; he 
calls it Kittiwake , and adds, that it is the fize of 
a pigeon, and as good meat as a partridge*. 
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* Sib. hijl . Scot. 20. Tab. 1 6. Fig. 2. Hijl. Fife 44. 
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