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land, where, Mr. Selby observes, other examples, old and 

 young, have occurred. Mr. Bartlett obtained an immature 

 specimen in the London market in the winter of 1838; 

 this bird is now in my own collection, and will be found 

 described at the end of this subject. The Rev. Leonard 

 Jenyns sent me notice of one obtained in Cambridgeshire. 

 In the notes of Mr. "Wm. Borrer, jun., I find a record of 

 three examples, all young birds, obtained at Thornham in 

 Norfolk, in the winter of 1836; and I have heard from 

 two or three other friends of specimens killed at Yar- 

 mouth, and at Scarborough. It is recorded as having 

 been killed lately in the Frith of Forth ; at Ramsgate, 

 Brighton, Weymouth, and Devonshire. On the other 

 side of the Channel this species visits the coasts of 

 Germany and Holland. M. Edmund de Selys Long- 

 champs, in his Belgian Fauna, mentions that both old 

 and young specimens have been taken at Dunkirk. M. 

 Vieillot includes this species in his Birds of France, and, 

 in the winter of 1817, a single bird strayed as far south as 

 Genoa. 



Mr. Edmondston mentions having seen this species on 

 the shores of the Baltic, and Professor Nilsson includes it 

 in his Ornithology of Sweden and of Scandinavia. It is 

 said to be common in Russia, and was found by naturalists 

 as far north as Nova Zembla. 



The Rev. W. Scoresby, in his account of the Arctic 

 Regions, says of this Gull, " Larus imperiosus might per- 

 haps be a more characteristic name for this lordly bird, 

 and would correspond pretty nearly with the name, Burgo- 

 master or Burger meister, as generally given to it by the 

 Dutch. It may with propriety be called the chief magis- 

 trate of the feathered tribe in the Spitzbergen regions, as 

 none of its class dare dispute its authority, when, with un- 

 hesitating superiority, it descends on its prey, though in 



