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The white Gull.
Numb. LXXXIV.
T T S Weight was eight Ounces and three quarters; the
A Length, from the Point of the Bill to the End of
the Tail, was fifteen Inches and a half; the Breadth,
when the Wings were expanded, thirty fix Inches; its
Bill rediih and fomething bending at the Point, the lower
Mandible bunching out into an Angle; the Noftrils Oblong;
the Eyes black, the Irides white with a Circle of Aih-co-
lour; the Head, Throat, Breaft, and Belly white, with a
faint Tin&ure of yellow; the Back and covert Feathers
of the Wings aih-colour; the prime Feathers of the
Wings black, with their Edges and Tips white, lhooting
beyond the Tail about two Inches ; the Tail was five Inches
long, compofed of twelve white Feathers of equal Length.
The Legs and Feet were of a fordid green, bare above
the Knees ; the back Toe fmall, the Claws final] and of
an obfcure dusky Colour.
This Gull and moft of the finallKind are very ufe-
full in Gardens to deftroy Worms, and Infects : it was
brought me alive. I kept it fome time, feeding it
fometimes on fmall Pieces of Liver and the Guts of
Chickens; at other Times with fmall Sprats, and Bits of
other freih Fill?,