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I C E L A N D G U L L.
V f H I T B - W l N O E D SILVERY GULL.
FABER. EVTON, TEMMINCK.
FLEMING. SELHY.
[ENYNS. GOULD,
t x h m i n c k .
MACGILLIVRAY.
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LAMS—A r a v e n o u s s e a - b i r d . LTUCOPTERUS. LETUOS—LAUON—White.
Pkron—A w i n g.
Lams leucopierus,
" Icelandicus,
" glaucoides,
" arcficus,
Pagothila brachyiars,
THIS Gull occurs plentifully in North America, in Greenland,
Davis' Straits, Baffin's Hay, and Melville Island. In Europe, it has
been noticed in Iceland at times in great numbers, Sweden and the
Fcrroc Island^, Belgium, and Holland.
Young birds of this species are occasionally killed on the coast of
Yorkshire; an adult specimen in one instance; another in the possession
of John Malcolm, Esq. A few stray along the Northumbrian coast.
One of these Gulls was shot in Norfolk, in December, 1847, at Blakciiey;
one about the 19th. of the same month in the previous year. In the
year 1830, three were killed on the 14th. of January, and several
others were obtained about the same time, one of which was in adult
plumage; another at Yarmouth, November 29th., 1851. Immature
birds are not unfrcquently met with late in the autumn; adult ones
are very rare. In Oxfordshire, a specimen was shot on Fort Meadow,
near Oxford, in the spring of 1836. One, an immature bird, at
Scillv, in Cornwall, the end of May or beginning of June, 18-32;
one at Falmouth in 1863, April 24th.; another, also immature, as
appears from the description sent to me of it by W. P. Cocks, Esq.,
January 6th., 1864. In Devonshire, one at Laira, near Plymouth,
January 30th., 1855; one previously; several others also, but young