The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . asting with black feet, and which is only an occasionalstraggler in the British seas. All these are, for the most part, rock-builders. i< 1-p—^temum ..f GuU. Others, the Xema of Leach, have a black hood in summer, Uke the Terns, and are generally slighter-made,breeding chiefly in marshes. The commonest in Britain is known as the Hooded Gull (/,. ridjhundus), with thehead and upper neck brownish-black during the breeding season, and bill and legs bright ver
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . asting with black feet, and which is only an occasionalstraggler in the British seas. All these are, for the most part, rock-builders. i< 1-p—^temum ..f GuU. Others, the Xema of Leach, have a black hood in summer, Uke the Terns, and are generally slighter-made,breeding chiefly in marshes. The commonest in Britain is known as the Hooded Gull (/,. ridjhundus), with thehead and upper neck brownish-black during the breeding season, and bill and legs bright vermilion : the MaskedGull {L. capistratus) is rather smaller, with the hood considerably reduced, and is not common : L. atricilla islarger than either, with a stouter bill, and black lears; also very rare: L. Sabini, smaller than the Masked Gull,is at onre distinguished by its forked tail, and is met with occasionally m Ireland and the west of Britain : andL. minutus, the smallest of all, not exceeding ten inches in length, and equally uncommon upon the British shores,is known by its size. There are many more, of both divisions.]. 258 AVES. From the Gulls have heen very properly separated The Skuas {Leslris, lUiger),—The membranous nostrils of which, larger than in the preceding, open nearer to the point and edge olthe beak; the tail also is pointed, [and they have great cceca]. They eagerly pursue the smallerGulls to rob them of their food, and, as has been said, to devour their excrement; [the truth being,that they cause them to disgorge, whereupon they seize the food before it reaches the water, beingendowed with uncommon power of flight] : hence their name, [Leslris, or robber. Four species occur on the British shores, successively smaller, with the middle tail-feathers prolonged in thesame ratio. The largest (L. cataractet:), nearly the size of the Great Black-hacked Gull, has deep brown plumage,with the middle tail-feathers but slightly elongated. It breeds on certain
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