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the Edinburgh Museum, Another example is noticed by 

 Mr. Selby as having been killed in the Frith of Clyde. The 

 late Joseph Sabine, Esq., early in the year 1834, sent notice 

 to Captain James C. Ross, that this beautiful Gull had then 

 but recently visited the western shores of Ireland ; and Mr. 

 Wm. Thompson, in his Report to the British Association 

 on the Fauna of Ireland, says, " I have had a note com- 

 municated by the late Thomas F. Neligan, Esq., of Tralee, 

 who was well versed in British Birds, that in January, 1835, 

 he saw a Gull in a field near that town, and four miles from 

 the sea, which he was satisfied was the Larus ehurneus ; he 

 watched it for about twenty minutes, and was at first at- 

 tracted by the ivory tint of its plumage and its black legs."" 



M. Temminck mentions in his Manual having himself 

 killed a bird of this species, which was entirely white, in 

 spring, on the coast of Holland. M. Vieillot says it has ap- 

 peared on the coast of France, though very rarely, and one 

 specimen was killed in winter, some years since, near Lau- 

 sanne, which has been recorded by M. Necker, and also by 

 Dr. Schintz. Professor Nilsson says, this rare Gull appears 

 occasionally in winter both in Sweden and in the northern 

 parts of Scandinavia. The Ivory Gull is best known in high 

 northern latitudes, and has been found in summer at Nova 

 Zembla and at Spitzbergen. In reference to some of the 

 habits of this species, Captain W. Scoresby, in his account 

 of the Arctic Regions, says, that this Gull, " though so deli- 

 cate in its appearance, is almost as ravenous as the Fulmar 

 Petrel, and as little nice in its food. It is, however, more 

 cautious. It is a constant attendant on the flenzing opera- 

 tions of the whale-fishers, where it generally seizes its portion 

 on the wing. It rarely alights in the water, but often sits on 

 the ice, preferring the most elevated situations. Its voice is 

 a loud and disagreeable scream." 



Captain Sabine and Captain James C. Ross, represent this 



