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Larus glaucus, BEWICK. FLEMING. SBLBY.
" " JENVNS. GOULD. TEMMINCK.
Larus—A ravenous sea-bird. Glauats—Grey—sky-coloured.
As appertaining to Europe, the Glaucous Gull builds in Iceland
and Spitsbergen, and specimens have occurred in the Baltic, in Sweden
and Norway. It is common in Russia, and individuals have been met
with in Germany; Belgium, as mentioned by M. De Selys Longchampsj
at Dunkirk, in France; Italy, at Genoa, a single specimen in the winter
of 1817. In America, iu Greenland, about Baffin's Bay, Davis' Straits,
Felix Harbour, and in various regions among the Polar seas, as also
in the United States.
A mature specimen was obtained in Yorkshire, at Scarborough, in
December, 1853; one at Rossington, iu the West-Riding; considerable
numbers of old birds were seen on the coast in the year 18-30; the
young occur every year. The Rev. Leonard Jenvns recorded one met
with in Cambridgeshire. In Norfolk, one was killed at Ilorsea, and
one at Blakeney, in December, 1847; the former was shot while
perched on a Coot which had just before fallen to the gun, and on
which it had then pounced; four were taken at Cromer, in January,
1850, two of them adult birds, but most of the specimens that have
occurred have been in immature plumage; another, also an adult, at
Yarmouth, November 89th,, 1851; others also there, and three at
Thornham, in the winter of 1836. Two were seen, and one of them
obtained, at Ramsgatc, in Kent, in 1846; both were young birds. In
Sussex, one was caught near Seaford, about the 20th. of December,
1852. In Devonshire, some have been obtained near Plymouth; rare
in full plumage; young birds mostly. Others in Cornwall occasionally
observed; two seen at Mainporth, and one at Penryn Flats, Falmouth,
in February, 1861. One occurred in Gloucestershire, on the Severn,