. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . 2l6 .BRITISH WAGEL. GREAT GREY GULL, GRISARD, OR BURGO-MASTER.{Larus nccvius, Lin.—Le Goiland varie ou le Grifardt BufF.) This Gull is about two feet in length, and five inbreadth, and weighs nearly three pounds ; but theindividuals vary much in their fize, fome of thembeing lefs, and others larger than thefe bill is black, fcarcely three inches long: theirides dark blue. The whole plumage is a mixtureof afh-coloured brown and white. The featherson the back are dark in the middle, with whitifhgrey edges: the win
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . 2l6 .BRITISH WAGEL. GREAT GREY GULL, GRISARD, OR BURGO-MASTER.{Larus nccvius, Lin.—Le Goiland varie ou le Grifardt BufF.) This Gull is about two feet in length, and five inbreadth, and weighs nearly three pounds ; but theindividuals vary much in their fize, fome of thembeing lefs, and others larger than thefe bill is black, fcarcely three inches long: theirides dark blue. The whole plumage is a mixtureof afh-coloured brown and white. The featherson the back are dark in the middle, with whitifhgrey edges: the wing coverts nearly the fame, butmore fpottedj and the under parts of the body BRITISH BIRDS. 217 have a much lighter and more mixed appearance:the quills are plain black: the middle tail feathersthe fame, but tipped with white, and croffed with anarrow white bar towards the root or bafe: the fidefeathers are mottled black and white: the legs areof a dirty white, fometimes blulhed with red. Mr Pennant treated of the Wagel as a diflinftfpecies, from an opinion he had formed, th
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