Identifier: britishzoology02penn (find matches)
Title: British zoology
Year: 1776 (1770s)
Authors: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Subjects: Zoology -- Great Britain
Publisher: Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for B. White, London
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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and devours their excrement before they dropirieo the water; from which the name. Linn^uswittily calls it the Paraftte, alluding to its fordidlife.Descrip. The length of this fpecies is twenty-one inches:the bill is dufky, about an inch and a half long,pretty much hooked at the enc), but the flraitpart is covered with a fort of cere. The noftrilsare narrow, and placed near the end, like the for-Male. mer. In the male, the crown of the head is black:the back, wings, and tail dufky ; but the lowerpart of the inner webs of the quil-feathers white :the hind part of the neck, and whole underfide ofthe body white : the tail confifts of twelve feathers,the two middlemoft near four inches longer thanthe others : the legs black, fmall, and fcaly.Female. The female is entirely brown; but of a muchpaler color below than above : the feathers in themiddle of the tail only two inches longer than theothers. The fpecimen from which Mr. Edwardstoke the figure of his female Arftic bird, had loft thofe
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Class II; HERRING GULL. 5S5 thofe long feathers, fo he has omitted them inthe print. Linnaeus has feparated this from its mate, hisLarus parafiticus^ and made it a fynonym to his L.Qatar aftes, a bird as different from this as any otherof the whole genus. Burgermeitfer Martins Spitz- Larus fufcus. Lin. Jyft. 125. ~4-6- Hen- berg. 84. Faun. Suec. fp^ 154. rinc. Herring Gull. Wil. err.. 345. Danis Silde-Maage. Iflanais Larus cinereus maximus. Raii Veyclebjalla. Brunnicb, 142. fyn. a-j. 127. Grcfie Staff Moeur. Frifcb, Le Goiland gris. BriJJon a--v> II. 218. VI. 162. Br. Zool. 141. >*TpHIS gull weighs upwards of thirty ounces: the Descrip.•** length twenty-three inches \ its breadth fifty-two, The bill yellow, and the lower mandiblemarked with an orange colored fpot: the iridesftraw color: the edges of the eye-lids red: the head,neck, and tail white : the back, and coverts of thewings afh colored : the upper part of the five firflquil-feathers are black, marked with a white fpotn

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