GLAUCOUS GULL 



BURGOMASTER. 



PLATE CCXXVII. FIGURE II. 



Larus glaucus, FABRICIUS. 



THIS irregular winter visitor breeds in the Arctic Circle, 

 on the sea-beach, as well as on the ledges of steep 

 cliffs, and island rocks in the sea. 



The nests, according to Seebohm, who described the 

 breeding-station at Vardo, in the north-east of Norway, are 

 mere heaps of sand lined with tufts of grass and sea-weed, 

 and at other breeding-places it nests like a tern. 



The, eggs three in number, are stated to be of a pale 

 stone colour, with scattered spots of ash grey and brown. 



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