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< P a&'Oph il a e b u r n ea h(!PhIpps*) i •
THE ^TOEY“g® fi£ f^
-;c JSaru^ehy0iffm^ k
PAflOPHiiiA, shorter than’the head(^oiiu|l|‘compresaed^siriiiglit,
the opgpipmandible decurved towards the tip,, J^w^®andible narrower • nostrils
basal, linear, oblong, wider in^front,, cp^ered, ^o'ggrand^ behind-with, a sloping
thin-.edged plate. - Wings long, pointed. the’first'ouiU iongpRC Tail rather long,
slightly graduated. Legs short, bare for a"shortJ distance abo-ve5 th e5 tibia ^t&rsi
broadly scuteljate in front, and minutely at the sides and;fb_acki;?’ircteyd^i!tal
membranes I em^fginate4* and serrated;, cli^ws] strong ^nd curbed; < hind/" toe
furnishedL.^ith a large claw, and connected on th^-mside-fWith the tarsus %
a well-defined web.
* Larus eburneus, Phipps, ”Voy. towards 3norffi*P61ef pt*T8T’flf7 ‘4).,i‘>'
t i ^ t i i r l . .-S-yst. pp. ; from Trayo,s;isi. pointed rook, and <ku\e(o
I.lpve.
. The first example off this truly Arctic Hull recorded in
the British Islands was obtained at Balta Sound, Shetland,
in the winter of 1822, by the late-Dr* Lawrence EdmOnston
(Mem. Wern. N. H. Soc7 iv. pt 501), who presented the
specimen to“ the Edinburgh-Museum. Other examples have
subsequently been observed there, and the Kevf S'.' H. Saxby,
in a note to his brother’s ‘Birds of Shetland jj (p. 838),
says, that although a rarity/* it is a tolerably regular visitor
to those northern islands. In Orkney it has occurred at
least" four "'•times: £ ohee in May "; t the late Sir William
Jardine possessed an example with 'unusually short legs^
and comparatively long wings, shot in "-Caithness' in November,
1854;" two appear t®r*have been obtained in Banffshire
(MooL' pp. 6974, 7387'f;';^ and Mr. J. ‘Whitaker 'has an
immature'example obtained near Aberdeen in September,
1874. On the wesf-'sitje./in addition to a specimen in immature'
plumage -recorded by Selby from the Firth of I Clyde,
Mr. B. Cray mentions1 six individuals—-several of them
adults—’Ohtained'or Observed on the coast and neighbouring
islaMs/' Mr. J. Han eotfk’ record's hpe'adult from the mouth
of fhArfEyne, and an immature bird, now in the Sunderland
Museum, shot at^Seaton CareW- Besides one shot, ‘many
years ago,’ off-Scarbrough, examples have been obtained on
the Yorkshire coast in the autumns of 1875,1879, and 1880,
two of them'heing adult males, and’ one in immature plumage.
It 'has not visited Norfolk, the bird recorded under this
name ('Eool. p. 1384) being;'-as Mr. Steven sop Informs the
Editor,4 a specimen of some larger species. On the southern
ooa'st'-tftee examples "are mentioned hy Mr. A. E. Knox from,
Sussex; one has been procured at' Torquay'; Bodd records
twddpom gCerhwall^and two "of 'three have been taken' in
Somersetshire.
In Ireland, according -Midi Thompson, the Ivory Cull has
been ©b'tainedlon two occasions : oner-near Tralee in immature
plumage, and an adult picked up Op Achil Island; and
other examples'1 have rbMn"' observed. It i$ • -probable that
several other specimens, which are nbt now recorded, h«i\»
occurred in "the British Islands; but enough has been said
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