IVORy GULL. 



NATATORE.S. 



449 



LARIDJE. 



THE IVORY GULL. 



hums ehuriteus, Tvnrij Gull, Bkwick, Brit, Birds, vol. ii. p. 234. 

 ,, caiuliilus. The Snow-bird, Fle.m. Brit. An. p. 142. 

 ,, eburiieus, Ivorii Gull, Selbv, Brit. Ornitii. vol. ii. p. 497. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 276. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xiii. 



,, ,, Mouette blanche, Temm. Man. d'Oinith. vol. ii. p. 769. 



The first example of this Ivory-white Gull obtained in 

 the British Islands, occurred at Balta Sound, Shetland, in 

 the winter of 1822, and the circumstance is recorded in the 

 fourth volume of the Memoirs of the Wernerian Society by 

 Lawrence Edmonston, Esq., who presented the specimen to 



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