LARUS GLAUCUS. 339 
LARUS GLAUCUS, Fabricius. 
GLAUCOUS GULL. 
§ 4636. One. Faxa Fjord,” Iceland, 1846. From Mr. Henry 
Milner, 1847. 
[It seems that Mr. Milner certainly took some eggs of this species in 
Iceland, but unfortunately this is not one of them. He got it from Herr Carl 
Siemsen, of Reykjavik, and it was said to have been taken on a small island 
in the Faxa Fjord ; but I have my doubts whether Larus glaucus breeds so 
far to the southward, while Z. marinus certainly does. ] 
§ 4637. One.—Greenland, 1852. From Mr. Hancock, 1853. 
Sent to Mr. Hancock from the south of Greenland, and the only 
one sent. 
[§ 4638. One.—lIceland, 1852. From Mr. Proctor, 1853. 
Like all Mr. Proctor’s Icelandic eggs, this was said to come from the north 
of the island, for there alone had he correspondents, and I believe it is certain 
that Larus glaucus breeds in that part. | 
[§ 4639. Zwo.—South Cape Islands, Spitsbergen, 20-21 June, 
1855. From Messrs. Wilson Sturge and Edward 
Evans. 
Hewitson, ‘ Eggs of Brit. B.’ ed. 3, pl. exli. fig. 2. 
These two eggs, from, I believe, different nests, were given to me by the 
gentlemen above named, on their return from their voyage to Spitsbergen, for 
which place Mr. Hudleston and I, with somewhat envious feelings, saw them 
embark at Hammerfest, in June, 1855. They subsequently contributed an 
account of their proceedings to the first volume of ‘The Ibis’ (1859, 
pp. 166-174), in which they say that they first set foot on one of the South 
Cape Islands of Spitsbergen about midnight of the 20th and 21st of June and 
found, among other birds, this species in immense numbers. “The large 
untidy nests of the Glaucous Gull, formed of sea-weed, and each containing 
usually three eggs, were to be found also on the shore, or more often on the low 
rocks, and in one or two instances even built on the masses of ice... .. Their 
eggs seem hardly distinguishable from those of the Great Black-backed Gull 
(Larus marinus, L.), which bird, however, has never, we believe, been found 
in Spitzbergen, though abundant enough even in the north of Norway. The 
specimen so faithfully represented by W. C. Hewitson in the last edition of his 
‘Kegs of British Birds’ (pl. 141. fig. 2) was obtained by us on this occasion.” 
In fact I sent the specimen to Mr, Hewitson, feeling sure of its genuineness. 
