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IVORY GULL. 



SNOW BIRD. 



Larus eburnfus, GMET.IN. LATHAM. SELRY. 



" " JENYNS. TEMMINCK. GOUI,D. 



" Candidas, FLEMING. 



Larus A ravenous sea-bird. Eburneus Like ivory. 



THIS snow-white Gull belongs naturally to the high latitudes, 

 and is accordingly found in the American portion of the 

 north, about Davis Straits, Baffin's Bay, Port Bowen, Hecla 

 Cove, Greenland, Labrador, Hudson's Bay, Behring's Straits, 

 and Newfoundland; on the European side, in Spitzbergen. 



In Holland one was shot on the coast, by M. Temminck; 

 and on the French shore a specimen also occurred. 



A specimen of the Ivory Gull was shot on the 18th. or 

 19th. of January, 1853, at Livermead, near Torquay, Devon- 

 shire. In Yorkshire, one at Scarborough. One in Norfolk 

 at Yarmouth. In Sussex one was shot at Hastings, in 1848. 

 In Cornwall a specimen which had been seen on the 13th. of 

 February, 1847, at Bar Point, Falmouth, was shot at 

 Penzance the following Monday. 



In Scotland one, a female, was shot near Banff, Aberdeen- 

 shire, on the 29th. of January, 1847; one, a young bird, in 

 the Firth of Clyde. 



In Ireland it has occurred on the west coast, near Tralee, 

 one having been seen there in a field about four miles from 

 the sea, by Thomas F. Neligan, Esq.; in allusion to which, 

 Mr. Thompson in his 'Natural History of Ireland,' states that 

 Mr. U. Chute, in writing to him, supplied the following 

 satisfactory information: 'After the storm that occurred in 

 the beginning of February, 1847, there were several Ivory 

 Gulls about here; I heard of three being seen near Dingle; 



