mollyhawk

/ ˈmɒlɪˌhɔːk /

noun

1. the juvenile of the southern black-backed gull ( Larus dominicanus )

Example Sentences

A mollyhawk, that evening, created some excitement.

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Meacock and myself heard one of these strike against the wireless 155 aerial, and thought that it would have scared them away; but no, a few minutes later we heard a croaking and a flapping while we stood in the lee of the wheel-house, and there was a mollyhawk.

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Mr. Keytel photographed the Mollyhawk on its nest.

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Friday, October 25.—A mollyhawk was brought in today, it weighed four pounds and measured from tip of beak to tip of tail thirty inches, from tip of wing to tip of wing seventy-eight, and in girth twenty.

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From July to October the men get a great number of eaglet, penguin, and mollyhawk eggs—all sea-fowl.

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