. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . nt; nostrils lateral, in tlie middle of the bill, longitudinally cleft, straight, andpervious; legs slender, naked above the knee; tarsus long; three fore toes quite webbed,the hinder free, short, placed hi^li on the tarsus; tail feathers of equal length ; wings -ong. 656 AVES—GULL. when living animal food is not to be found, it has even been knov/n to eatcarrion, and whatever else offers of the kind. Of the gull there are about nineteen species. The largest wit
. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . nt; nostrils lateral, in tlie middle of the bill, longitudinally cleft, straight, andpervious; legs slender, naked above the knee; tarsus long; three fore toes quite webbed,the hinder free, short, placed hi^li on the tarsus; tail feathers of equal length ; wings -ong. 656 AVES—GULL. when living animal food is not to be found, it has even been knov/n to eatcarrion, and whatever else offers of the kind. Of the gull there are about nineteen species. The largest with which weare acquainted is, the black and Avhite or black-backed It generallyweighs upwards of four pounds, and is twenty-five or twenty-six inches fromthe point of the bill to the end of the tail; and from the tip of each wing,when extended, five feet and several inches. The bill appears compressedsideways, being more than three inches long, and hooked towards the end,like the rest of this kind, of a sort of orange color; the nostrils are of anoblong form ; the mouth is Avide, with a long tongue, and very open Jl)nr,I!i;i^ ■ The irides of the eyes are of a delightful red. The wings and the middle oithe back are black; only the tips of the covert and quill feathers are head, breast, tail, and other parts of the body, are likewise white. Thetail is near six inches long, the legs and feet are flesh-colored, and the clawsblack. There are about twenty varieties of this tribe, which are all dis-tinguished by an angular knob on the chap. Gulls are found in great plenty in every place; but it is chiefly round therockiest shores, that they are seen in the greatest abundance; it is there thatthe gull breeds and brings up its young; it is there that millions of them areheard screaming with discordant notes for months together. • Larus manmis, Lin. AVES—PETREL. 657 THE PETREL The whole genus of petrels are known by having, instead of a back toe,only a sha
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