. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . artsof Europe, the rocky isles of the North Sea, and inGreenland, but are only thinly scattered on the coasts ofEngland, where they, however, sometimes remain tobreed on the highest cliffs which overhang the sea : theireggs are of a round shape, of a dark olive colour, thinlymarked with dusky spots, and quite black at the thickerend. Their cry of kac, kac, kac, quickly repeated/ isroughly hoarse and disagreeable. Mr Pennant says, I have seen on the coast of Angle-sea a bird that agrees in all respects with this, except insize, in wa
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . artsof Europe, the rocky isles of the North Sea, and inGreenland, but are only thinly scattered on the coasts ofEngland, where they, however, sometimes remain tobreed on the highest cliffs which overhang the sea : theireggs are of a round shape, of a dark olive colour, thinlymarked with dusky spots, and quite black at the thickerend. Their cry of kac, kac, kac, quickly repeated/ isroughly hoarse and disagreeable. Mr Pennant says, I have seen on the coast of Angle-sea a bird that agrees in all respects with this, except insize, in wanting the black spot on the bill, and in the co-lour of the legs, which in this are of a bright yellow :the extent of the wings is only four feet five : the lengthonly twenty-two inches : the weight one pound and ahalf. This species, or perhaps variety, (for I dare notassert which) rambles far from the sea, and has been shotat Bullstrode, in Middlesex. One of this sort was shotby Mr Latham on the Thames, near Dartford, and mea-sured full two feet in BRITISH BIRDS. 193 THE HERRING GULL. ^Larus fufcusj Lin.—Le Goiland in manteau gris-brun, ou hBourgmejlre, BufF.) The weight of this bird exceeds thirty ounces; thelength is about twenty-tliree inches, and the breadth fifty-two. The spot on the angular knob of the under mandi-ble is deep orange; the rest of the bill yellow: iridespale yellow; edges of the eye-lids red. The back andwing coverts are of a dark bluish ash colour: the firstfive quills in most specimens are black on the upper parts,and have each, a roundish white spot on the outer websnear the tips ; others are marked differently on thequills : legs pale flesh colour. The back and wings ofsome of this species, which are supposed to be the youngnot arrived at full plumage, are ash-coloured, spottedwith brown : the old ones are said to turn quite white. The haunts, manners, and habits, as well as the gene-ral appearance of this Gull, are very similar to those oft
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