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fish, the young bird is scarcely inferior either in delicacy of flavour or colour to the 

 tenderest chicken : the old ones, however, are not quite so palateable, and smell most 

 offensively after being kept a day or two. 



22.— LARUS ARGENTATUS {Black-winged Silvery Gull). 



LARUS ARGENTATUS.— Gmei.— vol. i., p. 600. Temm.—vo\. ii., p. 764. 

 Rich : App. to Parry's 2d Voyage — p. 358. 

 Ross, App. to Parry's 3d Voyage — p. 104. 

 SILVERY GULL— ,4rc<. Zoo/.— vol. ii., p. 533. Lath: Syn.—vo\. vi.,p. 375. 

 HERRING GULL.— ^rc(. Zoo/.— vol. ii., p. 527. 



The individuals of this species obtained during our late voyage, agreed sufficiently 

 with the descriptions above referred to, except perhaps that the markings on the 

 primary quill feathers are not quite so dark as in European specimens. 



Dr. Richardson has referred the examples of this bird, brought to England on our 

 former voyages from Melville Island and Melville Peninsula, to the Larus Argenta- 

 toides of the Prince of Musignano. (Faun: Bor. Amer. — p. 417.) 



23.— LARUS LEUCOPTERUS {White-winged Silvery Gull). 



LARUS LEUCOPTERUS.— Ric/c Faun. Bor. ^mer.— vol. ii., p. 418. 

 LARUS ARGENTATUS.— Sa6; Trans. Linn. Soc— vol. xii., p. 546. 

 LARUS ARCTICUS M'GiUivray, Wer. Trans.— vo\.w.,p.^68. 



This bird abounds in Greenland and Iceland, and was first described many years 

 ago by Dr. Edmonstone, of Shetland, in the Wernerian Transactions, under the name 

 of the " Less Iceland Gull," from its general resemblance, except in size, to the 

 L. Glaucus, which he had before described under the name of Iceland Gull. Captain 

 Sabine, in his " Memoir on the Birds of Greenland," loc. cit., was disposed to have 



