The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects (1854)
Gould, Augustus A. (Augustus Addison), 1805-1866, Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI, Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI · Boston : Phillips, Sampson, and Company · leaf 664
ck and white or black-backed gull.! It generally weighs upwards of four pounds, and is twenty-five or twenty-six inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail; and from the tip of each wing, when extended, five feet and several-inches. The bill appears compressed sideways, being more… … The irides of the eyes are of a delightful red.. The wings and the middle or the back are black; only the tips of the covert and quill feathers are white. The head, breast, tail, and other parts of the body, are likewise white. The tail is near six inches long, the legs and feet are flesh-colored,…
Zoology
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