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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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e inches; the beak is of a lake red, with two 94 audouins gull, transverse black bands near the tip of both, mandibles;the naked circle round the eyes golden; the legs,toes, and webs black. In their summer dress they have the head, nape,and neck white, these parts, as well as the crop,lightly shaded with rose. Beak blood red, alwayscarrying, in a manner more or less decided, twoblack transverse bands. The young of the year have generally a plumagemore or less tinged with many shades of ash andbrown; the mantle brown, irregularly spotted withclear brown and russet; and the tail more or lessspotted with black and brown. In their second moultin autumn they assume some grey traces on the headand neck; but after their second moult in spring theplumage is perfect. My figure of this bird is taken, in the absence ofan authentic skin, from that of Mr. Gould. The eggfrom Thienemann. The bird has been figured by Temminck and Laugier,pi. col. 480, adult in spring plumage; Gould, B. of E.,pi. 438.
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I 95 PALMIPEDES. Family LARID^E. f Bonaparte.J Genus Larus. (Linnceus.) WHITE-EYED GULL. Larus leucopJitJialmus, Larus leucopMhalmus, Lightenstein. Temminck. X.ema leucoplitlialmum, Bonapaete. Goelancl a iris hlanc, Of the Feench. Weissdugige Move, Of the Gteemans. Adjameh, Of the Arabs. Specific Characters.—Tarsus two inclies long; beak from tlie eyesto tip, two inches and four fiftlis; a black bood, lightly tingedwith grey in the adult, and with ash brown, the feathers beingbordered with white, in the young. Length sixteen inches andfour fifths.—Degland. This species is found on the coasts of Greece, onthe border of the Eed Sea, and the shores of theBosphorus. Count Miihle says it visits Greece inspring in flocks, but that it is local, being foundespecially in the lower end of the narrow channelwhich separates the Island of Euboa or Negropontfrom Boeotia and Attica, near the town of Egripos,where, in the clear shallow salt water it may be seen 96 WHITE-EYED GULL. fishing constan

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