LARUS MARINUS. 333 
§ 4620. Zwo.—Shetland. 
[Inscribed by Mr. Wolley, but not entered in the Egg-book. ] 
§ 4621. Zwo.—Reend, East Finmark. 2 June, 1855. “ Bird 
well seen on. J. W.” 
On a crack in a flat rock I watched the birds some time, and had 
Herrivg-Gulls standing near them for comparison. One of the Great 
Black-backs was most undoubtedly incubating these small eggs. No 
other nest of a Gull near. 
[One of these eggs is almost colourless. | 
§ 4622. One.—East Finmark, 1855. ‘Bird well seen. 
JW.” 
[This was most likely taken at the same time and place, but Mr. Wolley 
omitted to enter it in the Ege-book. It is very deficient in colour, like one of 
the last. ] 
§ 4623. Two. 
Tamso, East Finmark, 1855. From Herr Peder 
ee oe tee iliek 
§ 4625. One. 
[The two pairs of normal appearance, the single egg in colour not unlike 
that of a Colymbus. | 
§ 4626. Three. 
§ 4627. Two. (Tamsé, 1855. From Herr Ulich. 
§ 4628. One. 
[The first five of these pale in colour and sent as those vf the “ Large Blue 
Mew,” by which Herr Ulich meant Larus glaucus, for the good people at 
Tamsé had been instructed so to call the very pale-coloured eggs not 
unfrequently met with there, but without any evidence, so far as I am able to 
ascertain, of that species breeding there or elsewhere on the Norwegian islands. 
The sixth of these eggs is very remarkably coloured, of a dull lavender with 
clouded markings of a darker shade. Tascribe them all to Z. marinus without 
much doubt. | 
