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Collection, exhibited various specimens, some of which 

 were sent to him by Mr. L. Edmondston ; one was killed 

 on Loch Lomond, and one on the coast of Northumber- 

 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 de- 

 scribed 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 Yarmouth, 

 and at Scarborough. On the other side of the Channel 

 this species visits the coasts of Germany and Holland. 

 M. Edmund de Selys Longchamps, 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. 



Captain W. Scoresby, in his account of the Arctic 

 Regions, says of this Gull, " Larus imperiosus might perhaps 

 be a more characteristic name for this lordly bird, and 

 would correspond pretty nearly with the name, Burgo- 

 master, or Burgermeister, 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- 



