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SNOW HIHI).
LOTUS tburneus, < IMKI.IN. LATHAM. SELB) .
" " J KNVNS. TEMMINCK. GOULD.
" Candidus, FLEMING.
LOTUS—A raveno.ua sea-bird. Ebumeus—Like ivory.
THIS snow-white Gull belongs naturally to the high latitudes, and
is accordingly found in the American portion of the north, about
Davis' Straits. Baffin's Hay. Port Bo wen, 1 Iecla Cove, Greenland,
Labrador, Hudson's Bay, Bearing's Straits, and Newfoundland; on the
European side, in Spitsbergen.
In Holland one was shot on the coast, by M. Temrninck; and on
the French shore a specimen also occurred.
A specimen of the Ivory Gull was shot on the 18th. or 19th. of
January, 1853, at 1 jvermead, near Torquay, Devonshire. In Yorkshire,
one at Scarborough. One in Norfolk, at Yarmouth. In Sussex
one was shot at Hastings, in 1848. In Cornwall a specimen which
had been seen on the 13th. of February, 1847, at Bar Point, Falmouth,
was shot at Penzance the following Monday. Another at Guilquay.
In Scotland one, a female, was shot near Banff, Aberdeenshire, on
the 29th. of January, 1847; one a young bird, in the Firth of Clyde.
Some in Caithnesshirc, but very rarely.
In Ireland it has occurred on the west coast, near Tralee, one
having been seen there in a field about four miles from the sea, by
Thomas F. Neligan, Esq.; in allusion to which, Mr. Thompson, in hi
' Natural History of Ireland,' states that Mr. II. Chute, in writing
to him, supplied the following satisfactory information:—' After the
storm that occurred in the beginning of February, 1847, there were
several Ivory Gulls about here; I heard of three being seen near
Dingle;—one of them 1 saw myself. During my absence from home,
two of them for a few days in succession alighted in my yard; my