. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . ■..# ;•, /. y}?c /rcmr/i /laacn Oa/l (79; The hrown headed Gull. Numb. LXXXVI. ITS Weight was feven Ounces and a half; Length,from the Point of the Bill to the End of the Tail,was fixteen Inches ; Breadth, when the Wings were ex-tended, thirty eight Inches: its Bill vv^as red, fliarp-pointedand a little bending; the under Mandible bunches outinto an Angle; the Eyes are black, the Irides red, andencompalFed with a broad Circle of white Feathers; theHead and Throat were of a browni

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. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . ■..# ;•, /. y}?c /rcmr/i /laacn Oa/l (79; The hrown headed Gull. Numb. LXXXVI. ITS Weight was feven Ounces and a half; Length,from the Point of the Bill to the End of the Tail,was fixteen Inches ; Breadth, when the Wings were ex-tended, thirty eight Inches: its Bill vv^as red, fliarp-pointedand a little bending; the under Mandible bunches outinto an Angle; the Eyes are black, the Irides red, andencompalFed with a broad Circle of white Feathers; theHead and Throat were of a browniili Colour, towardsthe Neck more dusky, as it were ending in a whole Body is white with a Tin6l:ure of pale yel-lowifh green, excepting the Back and outer covert Fea-thers of the Wing, wiiich were afli-coloured; the primeFeathers of the Wings were black, their exteriour Webswhite. The Tail was almoft five Inches long, made up oftwelve white Feathers of equal Length. Its Legs and Feet were of the fame Colour of the Bill;the Claws black, crooked, and fmall; the back Toe Birds are very frequent in the

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