LARIiXJE. 



GA VIA*. 



LARIDM. 



LARUS GLAUCUS, 0. Fabricius.* 

 THE GLAUCOUS GULL, 



OR LARGE WHITE-WINGED GULL. 



Larus glaucus. 



THIS large species, equal in size to the Great BJack-backed 

 Gull last described, was first made known as a winter visitor 

 to the most northern of the Shetland Isles by the late Dr. 

 Lawrence Edmondston, who obtained young and old birds 



* Fauna Grcelandica, p. 100 (1780), exBrunnich. 



