IVORY GULL. 



N ATA TORES. 



567 



LARID/F.. 







THE IVORY GULL. 



Larus eburneus. 



Larus eburneus, Ivory Gull, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 234. 

 candidus, Tlie Snow-bird, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 142. 

 eburneus, Ivory Gull, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 497. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 276. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xiii. 



Mouette blanclie, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 769. 



THE first example of this Ivory-white Gull obtained 

 in the British Islands, occurred in Balta Sound, Shetland, 

 in the winter of 1822, and the circumstance is recorded 

 in the fourth volume of the Memoirs of the Wernerian 



