i;3. LAKUS. 



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l)ut extremely similar, the difference being (in our specimen) that 

 the grey pattern is darker, while on the 3rd (see cut) and 4th quills 

 there is a fairly defined subterminal bar across both webs : bill 



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Larus kumlieni. 



yellow, the angle red ; tarsi and toes dull yellow (dried). Total 

 length 19-5 inches, culmen 2-1, wing 15-5, tail 0-5, tarsus 2, middle 

 toe with claw 2-1. 



Vounr/. Unknown to me. Mr. Kumlien states that the birds 

 shot in Cumberland Sound in September were " even darker than 

 the young of L. an/eutatiis, the primaries and tail being very nearly 

 black." Two young birds sent by Mr. W. Brewster and ascribed to 

 this species are, in my opinion, young L. leucopterus. 



Hah. Cumberland Sound, Baffin Land. In winter to Bay of 

 Fundy and New York. 



a. (S ad. sk. Cumberland Sound, west side of H. Saunders Coll. 

 Davis Straits, June 10, 1884 

 {Henderson). 



43. Larus glaucus. 



Lavus glaucus, Briinn. Orn. Bor. p. 44 (17fi4: Iceland); Fal>i: Faun. 

 Graml. ]\ 100 (1780, ex Brii>in.): Moh)\ Island. Natiirh. ]). 42 

 (1786) ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 600 (1788) ; Lath. Ind.Orn. ii. p. 814 (1790) ; 

 Bonn. Em: Meth. i. p. 841 (1790) ; Betzius, Faun. Suec. p. 156 (1800); 



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