. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . ,^ D 212 BRITISH THE BLACK-TOED GULL. LABBE, DUNG BIRD, OR BOATSWAIN.{^Larus Crepidatus, Lin.—Le Stercorare, BufF.) This bird measures sixteen inches and a half in length,and three feet four inches in breadth, and weighs elevenounces.* The bill is of a lead colour, dark at the point,from which to the brow it is little more than an inch inlength: the nostrils are placed near the nail or tip, in akind of cere not much unlike that of the Skua whole upper and under plumage is dark brown, eachfeather slightly edged and t

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. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . ,^ D 212 BRITISH THE BLACK-TOED GULL. LABBE, DUNG BIRD, OR BOATSWAIN.{^Larus Crepidatus, Lin.—Le Stercorare, BufF.) This bird measures sixteen inches and a half in length,and three feet four inches in breadth, and weighs elevenounces.* The bill is of a lead colour, dark at the point,from which to the brow it is little more than an inch inlength: the nostrils are placed near the nail or tip, in akind of cere not much unlike that of the Skua whole upper and under plumage is dark brown, eachfeather slightly edged and tipped with ferruginous : thegreater wing coverts, and the first and secondary quillsare dusky, and more distindlly tipped with rusty tail consists of twelve feathers, the two middle ones * This is the weight given by Mr Pennant. The specimenfrom which this figure and description were taken weighed only-eight ounces, but it was very lean. It was shot on the Durhamcoast, by Mr John Forster, of Newcastle, the first of October,1800. BRITISH BIRDS. 21^ longer than the rest;

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