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ICELAND GULL. 
WHITE-WINGED SILVERY GULL. 
Lams leneopterus, 
“ Icelundicus, 
“ glaucoides , 
“ arcticus, 
Faber. Eyton. Temminck. 
Fleming. Selby. 
Jenyns. Gould. 
Temminck. 
Macgillivray. 
Larus— A ravenous sea-bird. 
Leucopterus. 
Pteron — A wing. 
Leucos—leucon — White. 
This Gull occurs plentifully in North America, in Greenland, 
Davis’ Straits, Baffin’s Bay, and Melville Island. In Europe, 
it has been noticed in Iceland at times in great numbers, 
Sweden and the Ferroe Islands, Belgium, and Holland. 
Young birds of this species are occasionally killed on the 
coast of Yorkshire; an adult specimen in one instance; another 
in the possession of John Malcolm, Esq. A few stray along 
the Northumbrian coast. One of these Gulls was shot in 
Norfolk, in December, 1847, at Blakeney; one about the 19th. 
of the same month in the previous year. In the year 1830, 
three were killed on the 14th. of January, and several others 
were obtained about the same time, one of which was in 
adult plumage; another at Yarmouth, November 29th., 1851. 
Immature birds are not unfrequently met with late in the 
autumn; adult ones are very rare. In Oxfordshire, a specimen 
was shot on Port Meadow, near Oxford, in the spring of 
1836. One, an immature bird, at Scilly, in Cornwall, the end 
of May or beginning of June, 1852. In Devonshire, one at 
Laira, near Plymouth, January 30th., 1855; one previously. 
In the London market a specimen was obtained in the winter 
of the year 1838. 
In Scotland, two, both immature, were seen near Banff, 
Aberdeenshire, in January, 1847. In Shetland, the young 
