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The Coddy Moddy. Laras hybernus.
Numb. LXXXVII.
T T S Weight was fixteen Ounces; its Length, from the Point of the
1 Bill to the End of the Claws, eighteen Inches; Breadth, when
the Wings were extended, forty four Inches. The, lower part of the
Throat is a little dusky, elfe the under fide of the Body is all white ;
the Head is white, in the hind part cinereous, having a tranfverfe black
. Spot behind the Eye, and another large Mark like a Crefcent on the
back part of the Neck, encompaffing it above halfway; the Back cinereous
the fcapular Feathers varied with black Spots; the Rump is
white, the Tail five Inches long made up.of twelve Feathers; the extreme
Tips black, the reft of the Tail white; the outmoft QuiH-Fea-
thers of the Wings are black with cinereous Tips and Edges; the lefler
covert Feathers of the Wings are of a mixt Colour of cinereous and
black, thofe on the under fide of the Wing are white. gHg
The Bill is more than two .Inches long, the upper Mandible ot a
brownifh Aih-colour, longer than the nether and crooked at the End ;
the nether underneath black, and bunching out into an Angle or Knob,
as in other great Gulls-, the Tongue white cloven reaching to the End
of the Bill; the Eyes hazel-coloured, and furmihed with mftatmg Mem
branes; the Ears great; the Legs and Feet of a dusky greemfti Colour;
the back Toe little, armed with a fmall Claw, the inner fore. Toe the
leaft; the Claws black, that of the middle Toe iharp on. the mner fide
The Guts were long, being twenty eight Inches, having many fmral
Revolutions; the Stomach mufculous; theLiver divided into two Lobes,
the Gall-bladder large. It frequents moift Meadows, Fens,, and R v
and fometimes plowed Lands many Miles diftant from the Sea.