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Point Barrow. The nest is said to be composed of moss, 

 dry grass, seaweed and similar material, being placed on the 

 ground near the shore, on rocks, small islands, even on the ice 

 near the ocean or inland on small islands of rivers and lakes. 

 Two or three eggs are laid which are pale olive brown, gray 

 brown or pearl color, spotted with brown, lilac and black. 

 An egg measures 2.99 x 2.15. During the winter along the 

 coast an occasional solitary individual may be rarely seen, fly- 

 ing along with keen eye awake to detect any possibilities either 

 in the line of food or danger. Occasionally the cry "cuk-lek" 

 is uttered with startling vehemence. The winter diet is chiefly 

 fish, entrails and other carrion floating along in the water, and 

 similar animal food including star-fish and sea-urchins. In 

 summer in their northern homes they are said likewise to man- 

 ifest a great partiality for eggs and young of other seafowl. 



43. Larus leucopterus Faber. Iceland Gull; White-winged 

 Gull. 



Plumage in all its stages very similar to the corresponding phases of the 

 Glaucous Gull, but the difference in size and measurements of the two species 

 always serves to distinguish them. Wing 15.42 to 16.55; culmen 1.50 to 

 1.69; tarsus 2.05 to 2.32; depth of bill at angle 0.55 to 0.67, (Dwight). 



Geog. Dist. — Arctic regions, breeding in Greenland, Bering Sea, Yukon 

 River from Anvik seaward and Arctic Europe and Asia ; in winter southward, 

 rarely as far as Long Island. 



County Records. — Cumberland; occurs in Portland Harbor in winter, I 

 received one in 1898 and three in 1899 from near Portland, (Lord). Hancock ; 

 at West Sullivan, (Brewster, B. N. 0. C. 8, p. 251). Knox ; in winter, (Norton). 

 Oxford ; one received from E. D. Gray which was shot at a point near Per- 

 lejr's Mills, Jan. 12, 1898. This bird was hovering over some holes in the 

 ice and was an immature female, (Mead, Me. Sp., April 1898, p. 14). Wash- 

 ington; winter only, (Boardman). 



This species occurs generally along the coast as a winter 

 visitor from November until March or April, and while not 

 common it is probably with us more frequently than the records 

 indicate. They are said to breed in colonies numbering hun- 

 dreds of individuals, it being stated in Hagerup's Birds of 



