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Place and
Manners.
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4- WINTER G.
Description.
G U L L .
We have been informed that the male and female, both of this
and the former, are alike in an adult Hates therefore that mentioned
by Brijfon as the female, having a cinereous head, and the
forehead and throat ipotted with white; as alfo that in the Peter
jburgh ‘TranfiiSlions, of a lefs fize, with the head Ipotted black
and white, are without doubt young birds.
This is found in Ruffta, on the river Don, particularly about
PJchercaJk. The note refembles a coarfe laugh, whence the name
of the bird. Is met with alfo in more parts than one in the continent
of America; and is very numerous in the Bahama IJlands :
we have likewife feen it from Cayenne.
We are informed that a Gull with a black head, and dulky
yellow irides, frequents Hudfon’s Bay •, it comes there in May,
and makes the neft in the pine-trees : lays four lead-coloured
eSSs> and departs fouth in September.. It feeds on fijh and worms-,
and is called by the natives, Akeefe-keeafk *.
La Mouette d’Hyver, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 189. 12.—Buf. Oif. via. p. 437.
Guaca-guacu, Rail Syn. p. 130. \ 2.— Will. Orn. p. 352.
Winter-Mew, or Coddy-Moddy, Rail Syn. p. 130. A. 14.— Will. Orn.
p. 350. pi. 66.— Br. Zool. ii. N° 248. pi. 86.— dibin, ii. pi. 87.
Lev. Muf.
J ^ E N G T H eighteen inches: breadth three feet fix inches:
weight feventeen ounces. Bill flender, two inches long -, of
an horn-colour, with a black tip, and bent at the end: irides
hazel: the top of the head, hind part, and (ides of the neck, white, i
marked with oblong dulky fpots : back afh-colour : fcapulars
and wing coverts the lame, marked with dulky brown : the forehead,'
chin, throat, breaft, under parts, and rump, white: the firft
* Mr. Hutchins.
quill
G U L L , 3 * S
quill is black; the fix following more or lefs black at the ends 5
the others tipped with white : tail white, crolfed with a bar of
black near the end : legs dirty blueilh white.
This is very common in England, and is obferved to be met
with farther inland than any of the others. Mr. Pennant obferves,
that the gelatinous fubftance, known by the name of ftar-fhot,
or Jlar-jelly, owes its origin to this bird, or fomething of the kind;
being nothing but the half-digefted remains of earth-worms, on
which thefe birds feed, and often difcharge from their Itomachs *.
Place and
Manners.
Larus catarra&es, Lin. Syji. i. p. 226. 11.
Catharada Skua, Brun. N° 125.— Muller, N° 167.
Le Goiland brun, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 165. 4.-—B u f O if viii. p. 408.
Catarra&es, orCornilh Gannet,RaiiSyn. p. 128. A. 6.—Will. Orn. p. 348.
Catarra&a of Aldrovand. Rail Syn. p. 129. 7 l—Will. Orn. p. 349. pi. 67 ?
Brown Gull, Albin, ii. pi. 85.
Skua Gull, Br. Zool. ii. N° 243.— Ar&. Zool. p. 531. A.
Lev. Muf.
14.
SKUA G.
g I Z E of a Raven: length two feet: breadth four feet fix inches :
weight three pounds. The bill is an inch and three quarters
in length, and black 5 it is much curved at the end, and covered,
for three parts of its length, with a kind of black cere, at the end
of which the noftriis are placed, which are pervious : the pluDescription,
mage on the upper parts of the head, neck, back, and wings,
is very deep brown, the feathers margined with ferruginous
* Br. Zool.—-Morton Northampt. p. 353.— In the courfe of my correfpondence
with the late Mr. J . Platt o f Oxford, I recoiled his having mentioned, that once
meeting with a lump of this Jlar-jelly, on examination he found the toes of a
Frog or Tpad ft.ill adhering, and undiffolved; and from thence concluded it to be
the remains of one of thefe, having been fivallowed whole by fome bird, and
the indigeftible parts brought up in the condition he found it.
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