. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. KEASH, AND SKUA GULL. Thefe birds vary into lighter and darker colors ; but the color of the toes are fpecific marks: the legs are of a blueifh 1< d-color: the toes and webs have their lower parts of a deep blacK Weight eleven ounces. Length fifteen inches. Extent thirty-nine. Inhabits, in America, the coaft of Newfoundland and Uudjon's Bay : is hated by the natives, who have a notion the birds are com- panions to the detefted EJkimaux. I cannot, in Europe, trace it higher thai. Great Britain and Denmark; yet it has been fhot, in the At
. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. KEASH, AND SKUA GULL. Thefe birds vary into lighter and darker colors ; but the color of the toes are fpecific marks: the legs are of a blueifh 1< d-color: the toes and webs have their lower parts of a deep blacK Weight eleven ounces. Length fifteen inches. Extent thirty-nine. Inhabits, in America, the coaft of Newfoundland and Uudjon's Bay : is hated by the natives, who have a notion the birds are com- panions to the detefted EJkimaux. I cannot, in Europe, trace it higher thai. Great Britain and Denmark; yet it has been fhot, in the Atlantic ocean, as near to the line as north lat, 8, weft long. 21. 12, ipKIS fpecies of Gull was difcovered by Mr. Hutchins, mHudJon's Bay. Its bill is black, and three inches long: head, neck, breaft, and belly, of an uniform brown: primaries black : coverts and fcapulars brown, marked with white: tail black, fpeckled and tipt with white. I^ength twenty-three inches. Extent four feet and a half. Weight two pounds and a half. Perhaps a young Skua Gull: the natives call it Keajh. m. A. Skua, Br. Zool. ii. N"* 243—Catharafta Skua, Brumich, N^ 12$.'-Muller, N" i6;. Le Goeland brun, De Buffon, viii. i^o%.~—Latham, iii. —Lev. Mus. r^ With a ftrong (harp black bill and cere: head, back, and co- verts of the wings, brown and ruft-colored: primaries and fccondaries dulky ^ tlie Ihafts of the primaries white: on the fecon- daries Plack. 460*. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798. London : Printed for Robert Faulder . ..
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