. Arctic zoology [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. BLACK-TOiiD AND SKUA GULL. 53» Br. Znl. n. N" ;-Cathara£lacepphus. Strandhoegi £rvmiVj&, N" 126.—Le .(^q^ » Labbe, ou Stercoraire, Dt Buffon, viii. 441. tab. 34.—PI. Eul. ^^i.—La- tham iii. —Lev. Mus. r^^ With a bill refembling the former: head and neck of a dirty white, marked with dufky fpots: back, fcapulars, coverts of wings, and tail, black, prettily edged with pale ruft: bread and belly white, crofled with numerous dulky and yellowilh lines: the fides and vent barred croflways with black and white: tail black,
. Arctic zoology [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. BLACK-TOiiD AND SKUA GULL. 53» Br. Znl. n. N" ;-Cathara£lacepphus. Strandhoegi £rvmiVj&, N" 126.—Le .(^q^ » Labbe, ou Stercoraire, Dt Buffon, viii. 441. tab. 34.—PI. Eul. ^^i.—La- tham iii. —Lev. Mus. r^^ With a bill refembling the former: head and neck of a dirty white, marked with dufky fpots: back, fcapulars, coverts of wings, and tail, black, prettily edged with pale ruft: bread and belly white, crofled with numerous dulky and yellowilh lines: the fides and vent barred croflways with black and white: tail black, tipt with white; the exterior webs oftheoutmoft, fpotted with ruftj the two middle feathers are near an inch longer than the others. Thefc birds vary into lighter and darker colors •, but the color of the toes are fpecific marks : the legs are of a blueifli lead-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 coafl: of Newfoundland and Hudfon's Bay: is PtAci. hated by the natives, who have a notion that the birds are companions to the detefted EJkimaux. I cannot, in Eurepe, trace it higher than Great Britain and Denmark; yet it has been fliot, in the Atlantic ocean, as near to the line as north lat. 8, wefl long. 2a. A. Skua, Br. Zeol. ii. N« 243.—Catharafla Skaa, Brunnich, M" ii^.—Mullir, ^^ t6f. Le Goeland bran, De Buffon, viii. ^oi.—Latham, iii. —Let. Mus. Q With a ftrong fliarp black bill and cere: head, back, and coverts of the wings, brown and ruft-colored: primaries and fecondaries dufky i the (hafts of the primaries white: on the fecondaries a great 3 Y 2 whit*. 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 by Hen
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