. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . , ANNETT.(^Larus Ri/fa, Linnseus.) The Kittiwake meafures from fourteen to feven-teen inches in length, thirty-eight to forty in breadth,and weighs generally about fourteen ounces. Thebill is of a greenifh yellow: the infide of the mouthand edges of the eye-lids are orange : irides dark :the head, neck, under parts and tail, pure white :back and wings a lead or alh-coloured grey: the ex-terior edge of the firft quill feather, and the tips ofthe next four or five are black: legs dufky : hindertoe not bigger than a fmall wart. Some fpec
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . , ANNETT.(^Larus Ri/fa, Linnseus.) The Kittiwake meafures from fourteen to feven-teen inches in length, thirty-eight to forty in breadth,and weighs generally about fourteen ounces. Thebill is of a greenifh yellow: the infide of the mouthand edges of the eye-lids are orange : irides dark :the head, neck, under parts and tail, pure white :back and wings a lead or alh-coloured grey: the ex-terior edge of the firft quill feather, and the tips ofthe next four or five are black: legs dufky : hindertoe not bigger than a fmall wart. Some fpecimensof the Kittiwake are defcribed as having the auri-culars tipped with black. 230 BRITISH BIRDS* Thefe birds chiefly haunt the rocky promontoriesand iflets on the Britifh coafts j they are likewifewidely difperfed over the world, particularly in thenorth, and are met with from Newfoundland toKamtschatka, as well as in all the intermediate parts,and as far north as navigators have vifited. This fpecimen was fliot on one of the Fern iflandsin July, hillh ^^srS ■^ ~^ ^ -^ BRITISH BIRDS. 231 TARROCK. [Laras trlda8yJuSi Lin.—La Mouette cendree tacheteet BufF.) This bird is fomewhat lefs than the Kittiwake,The bill is black, fhort, and ftrong: the head, neck,breaft, belly, and tail are all white, with the excep-tion of the tips of ten of the middle feathers of thetail, a fpot on the auriculars, another under thethroat, and a crefcent-fhaped patch on the hinderpart of the neck, all of which are black: the backand fcapulars are of a bluifli grey : lelTer coverts ofthe wings deepifh brown, edged with grey : fome ofthe greater covert feathers are of the fame colour, •and others of plain grey : the outer webs and endsof the firfl four quills, and the tips of the next two,are black; all the reft are wholly white : the legsare of a dingy alli-colour: the hinder toe, like thatof the Kittiwake, is only a kind of fmall, and appa-rently ufelefs, protuberance. The habits and mann
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