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ROSS’S GULL. 
ROSS’S ROSY GULL. CU1YEATE-TA7LED GULL. 
WEDGE-TAILED GULL. 
Larus Rossii, Richardson. Ncttall. Atdubon. 
“ “ Macgillivray. Yarrell. Wilson. 
“ roseus, Jardine. Sklby 
Rhodostethia Rossi, Macgillivray. 
Larus —. Rossii — Of Ross. 
This species is named after Commander Ross, R.N., by 
whom the first specimen was obtained. Two were shot on the 
coast of Melville Island, during Sir Edward Parry’s second 
expedition. Several were seen north of Spitzbergen, and the 
species was also noticed by Lieutenant Forster, R.N., in 
Way gait Straits. 
A specimen of this beautiful Gull was shot in Yorkshire, by 
Lord Howden’s gamekeeper, in February, 1847, at Milford- 
cum-Ivirby, near Tadcaster, in the West-Riding. Another is 
reported in the ‘Zoologist,’ page 3388, on the authority of 
Mr. J. B. Ellman, to have been obtained at Pevensey, in 
Sussex, in the beginning of 1852. 
Length, about one foot two inches; the male in winter 
has the bill black, the inside o the mouth reddish orange; 
the edges of the eyelids reddish orange; near and around the 
eye are small black feathers; head and crown, white; the neck 
has a collar round it of pitch black, it is otherwise white, 
as well as the nape, chin, throat, and breast, the latter with 
some grey and a deep tinge of ‘rich and rare’ peach-blossom, 
red or rose-colour—borrowed, as it were, in the hyperborean 
regions, the native places of the bird, from the ‘Aurora Borealis,’ 
the ‘Northern Light,’ which, as if to make up for the brief 
day, transplants the gleam of the morning to gild the long 
night of the Arctic year. Back, clear grey. 
