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IVORY GULL, 
SNOW BIRD. 
Gmrt.in. Latham. Set.ry. 
Jenyns. Tbmminck. Gould . 1 
Fleming. 
“ candidus. 
Larus— A ravenous sea-bird. 
Ebumeus— Like ivory. 
This snow-white Gull belongs naturally to the high latitudes, 
and is accordingly found in the American portion of the 
north, about Davis Straits, Baffin’s Bay, Port Bowen, Hecla 
Cove, Greenland, Labrador, Hudson’s Bay, Behring’s Straits, 
and Newfoundland; on the European side, in Spitzbergen. 
In Holland one was shot on the coast, by M. Temminck; 
and on the French shore a specimen also occurred. 
A specimen of the Ivory Gull was shot on the 18th. or 
19th. of January, 1853, at Livermead, near Torquay, Devon¬ 
shire. In Yorkshire, one at Scarborough. One in Norfolk 
at Yarmouth. In Sussex one was shot at Hastings, in 1848. 
In Cornwall a specimen which had been seen on the 13th. of 
February, 1847, at Bar Point, Falmouth, was shot at 
Penzance the following Monday. 
In Scotland one, a female, was shot near Banff, Aberdeen¬ 
shire, on the 29th. of January, 1847; one, a young bird, in 
the Firth of Clyde. 
In Ireland it has occurred on the west coast, near Tralee, 
one having been seen there in a field about four miles from 
the sea, by Thomas F. Neligan, Esq.; in allusion to which, 
Mr. Thompson in his ‘Natural History of Ireland,’ states that 
Mr. R. Chute, in writing to him, supplied the following 
satisfactory information:—‘After the storm that occurred in 
the beginning of February, 1847, there were several Ivory 
Gulls about here; I heard of three being seen near Dingle; 
