. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . BRITISH BIRDS. 233. SKUA GULL, OR BROWN GULL.(^Larus cafarraSes, Lin.—Le Gotland hruUi BufF.) This flout Gull is two feet in length, and between,four and five from tip to tip of the extended wings,and weighs about three pounds. The bill is dark,more than two inches long, ftrong, much hooked,and fharp at the tip; and, what is fingular, it iscovered to the noftrils with a kind of cere, fome-thing like that of the Hawk tribe. The whole up-per plumage is of a deep brown, edged with a dullruft colour: the under parts are of the fame colour
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . BRITISH BIRDS. 233. SKUA GULL, OR BROWN GULL.(^Larus cafarraSes, Lin.—Le Gotland hruUi BufF.) This flout Gull is two feet in length, and between,four and five from tip to tip of the extended wings,and weighs about three pounds. The bill is dark,more than two inches long, ftrong, much hooked,and fharp at the tip; and, what is fingular, it iscovered to the noftrils with a kind of cere, fome-thing like that of the Hawk tribe. The whole up-per plumage is of a deep brown, edged with a dullruft colour: the under parts are of the fame colours,but lighter; and, in fome birds, the head and throatare daflied or mixed with alh-grey, and have thefecondary quills tipped with white: the tail is whiteat the root, the Ihafts are of the fame colour, and the Vol. n. t G g ^^4 BRITISH BIRDS. webs of deep brown: the legs and toes are coveredwith coarfe black fcales; the claws are ftrong andhooked, the inner one more fo than the reft. This fierce fpecies is met with by navigators inthe high latitudes of both hemifpheres, w
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