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Land only a few degrees south of the islands 

 where Nansen found it. 



The example above recorded, as obtained more 

 than fifty years ago in Yorkshire, is the only one 

 reported to have been met with in the British 

 Islands, and it is not unlikely that the well- 

 known credulity of Sir William Milner, who pur- 

 chased it as " British," may have been imposed 

 upon in this as in other instances by those having 

 designs upon his purse. 



Macgillivray has stated that " this species has 

 once occurred in Irelcuid" ("Man. Brit. Orn.," ii. 

 p. 254), but no evidence has ever been produced 

 to support the statement. 



IVORY GULL. Pagopliila eburnea (Phipps). Length, 

 18 in.; bill, 1*75 in. ; wing, 13-25 in.; tarsus, I'o in. 

 Hah. Coasts of Arctic America, Labrador, and New- 

 foundland. 



One, Balta Sound, Shetland, Dec. 1822 : Edmondston, Mem. 



Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. iv. p. 501. 

 One, Firth of Clyde : Selby, " 111. Brit. Orn.," vol. h. p. 497. 

 One, west coast of Ireland : Ross, Appendix to his Second 



Voyage, p. 35. 

 One near Tralee, co. Kerry, Jan. 1835 : Thompson, " Nat. 



Hist. Irel. (Birds)," vol. iii. p. 347. 

 One, Hartlepool, Durham, March 1837 : Hogg, " Cat. Birds 



S.E. Durham," p. 39. 

 One, Cowpen Marsh, Durham : Hogg, I.e. 

 One, Blennerville, co. Kerry, Feb. 1846 : Thompson, o}). cit. 

 One, Wrenningham, Norfolk: Gurney, Zool., 1847, p. 1384. 

 One, Banff, Jan. 29, 1847 : Edward, Zool, 1860, p. 6974. 

 Three seen, one shot. Dingle Bay, co. Kerry, Feb. 1847 : 



Thompson, o^?. cit. 



