. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . otland and its leave the fea-fhores in autumn, and fpreadthemfelves over the northern ocean, maldng, it isfaid, the floating ifles of ice their chief refting the fpring they return to the rocky crags tobreed j and in the month of June the female lays 232 BRITISH BIRDS. two eggs of a dingy greenifh colour, fpotted withbrown : thefe, as well as the flelh of the birds, areheld in great eftimation by the Greenlanders, whoalfo ufe their fkins for caps and garments. After many doubts and furmifes refpeding theTarrock, t
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . otland and its leave the fea-fhores in autumn, and fpreadthemfelves over the northern ocean, maldng, it isfaid, the floating ifles of ice their chief refting the fpring they return to the rocky crags tobreed j and in the month of June the female lays 232 BRITISH BIRDS. two eggs of a dingy greenifh colour, fpotted withbrown : thefe, as well as the flelh of the birds, areheld in great eftimation by the Greenlanders, whoalfo ufe their fkins for caps and garments. After many doubts and furmifes refpeding theTarrock, the prevailing opinion among ornitholo-gifts is, that it is only the Kittiwake not arrived atfull age and plumage. A fpecimen of this bird, prefented by CharlesJohn Brandling, Efq. of Gosforth, had not the blackfpot on the throat. The lefler wing coverts werevery dark brown ; the firft five quills were black onthe outer webs and tips; the tips of the next twowere marked with a black fpot; and the two outfidefeathers of the tail were tipped in the fame BRITISH BIRDS. 233
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