LARUS ARGENTATUS.—LARUS SP. INCERT. a2 
{§ 4586. Oxe—Unst, Shetland, 1854. From Mr. James 
Smith. | 
[§ 4587. Oxe—Horn6, 17-18 June, 1855. “ Bird seen. 
We Eas. 
Taken by Mr. Hudleston on our midnight visit to the islands off Vardé.] 
[§ 4588. Zwo.—South Warmsey, 23 June, 1856. 
These identified by my brother and myself. | 
[$ 4589. Zwo.—North America. From Dr. Heermaun, 1861. ] 
[§ 4590. Zhree.—Rathlin, Ireland, 25 May, 1863. From 
Mr. Robert Harvey. 
Mr. Harvey wrote that these were taken at the same place and time 
as those of Zurus fuscus which he alsc sent me (§ 4615), and by the 
same man. | 
[§ 4091. ee 
[§ 4592. One. | 
The three were from one nest: the single egg is a curiously pear-shaped 
specimen. | 
Freshwater, Isle of Wight, 1886. From 
Baron Anatole von Hugel. 
LARUS sp. incert. 
§ 4593. Four.—Reené, East Finmark, 1855. 
These are of the red-spotted variety of Gull’s egg which is found 
in the islands off Vard6—namely, Reeno and Hornd, and also, accord- 
ing to Brandt', sometimes on the Lofoten. Near Vardé all the 
naturalists have been taught to believe that these eggs belong 
1 [Apparently the Danish Lieutenant Thor Brandt, Dr. von Middendortt’s 
fellow-traveller in Siberia in 1843-5 (cf. Von Middendortf, ‘ Reise’ u.s. w. L. 1. 
p- Xiv), is here intended. Herr Nordvi met him at Copenhagen in 1846; but 
when he was at the Lofoten Islands I know not.—Iip._ 
