674 LARUS LEUCOPTERUS. 



peckers. Tits, Terns, and Gulls, ought to be applied only so 

 long as there arc none larger or smaller. Neither of the two 

 Gulls in question can with propriety be named Icelandic, they 

 being more common elsewhere than in Iceland, where they 

 never breed. But they might both be named White-winged, 

 the smaller, however, having the better title to that designa- 

 tion ; and, if so, the one would be the Larger White-winged 

 Gull, the other the Smaller. But he who named the former 

 Larus glaucus gave it a not inappropriate name ; and he who 

 named the latter Larus leucopterus cannot very reasonably 

 be censured. The birds having been so named before Dr. 

 Edmondston described them, ought to continue so, unless 

 the names were false, or much more appropriate names could 

 be applied. I should prefer glacialis and arcticus, which are 

 correct, and in all respects unobjectionable ; but must yield 

 to the general opinion. 



