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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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es,greater and lesser under wing coverts, tail, and tail coverts,pure white. The legs, which are feathered nearly to the kneejoint, and the toes, black, the latter very rough beneath; thewebs are also black, very rough beneath, and deeply scalloped. In the young the bill is olive yellow; iris, dusky; a greyishblack bar, more or less complete according to age, extendsfrom the bill to the eye. The head, crown, neck on the back,and nape, have more or less greyish brown specks and spots;chin and throat, white; back and greater and lesser wingcoverts, white, studded with well-defined dusky brown spots.The primaries are tipped with dusky brown, the first featherretaining the mark the longest. The tail has a uniform duskybrown line across the end; upper tail coverts, white, withdusky brown spots at the tips of the feathers; the legs, whichare short, and the toes, dull blackish; webs, dull blackish. The portrait of this bird is from a drawing by J. Gatcombe,Esq., of Wyndham Place, Plymouth, I
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1 85 COMMON GULL. SEA MEW. Larus canus, Linn^us. Larus—A ravenous sea-bird. Canus—Hoary. This Gull is not so common, as compared with other Britishspecies, as its name imports. In Europe, it is plentiful on the shores of Lapland, Norway,the Ferroe Islands, Holland, France, Italy, and Spain. InAsia, in Persia and about the Caspian Sea; and in America,in the northern regions. These birds breed in great numbers in Yorkshire, aboutFlamborough Head; individuals are shot almost every yearin the neighbourhood of Leeds, in the Wes^-Riding, and afew have occurred at Barnsley, Hebden Bridge, York, andSheffield; on the coast they are numerous. In Cornwall, theyare common at Penryn River and other parts of the shore;so also in Kent and Essex, by the sides of the Thames. InNorfolk, about Yarmouth and along the sea-board, commonly;thus too in Lincolnshire, Sussex, Dorsetshire, and in fact allround the island. Some are seen in Northamptonshire nearlyevery winter; the same remark applies to Oxfor

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