642 



GA VIM. 



LARID^E. 



LAEUS LEUCOPTERUS, Fabet*.* 

 THE ICELAND GULL, 



OR LESSER WHITE-WINGED GULL. 



Larus Icelandicus. 



THIS White-winged Gull bears about the same proportion 

 in size to the Glaucous Gull that the Lesser Black-backed 

 Gull does to the Great Black-backed Gull. It was first 

 recorded as a winter visitor to the British Islands by Dr. 



* Prodromus Islandischen Ornithologie, p. 91 (1822). 



