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ICELAND GULL. 



WHITE-WINGED SILYEET GULL. 



Lams lencopterns, FABER. EYTON. TEMMINCK. 



" Icelundicus, FLEMING. SELBY. 



" JENYNS. GOULD. 



" glaucoides, TEMMINCK. 



* arcticus, MACGILLIVRAY. 



LarusA. ravenous sea-bird. Leucopterus. Leucoskucon White. 



Pleron A wing. 



THIS Gull occurs plentifully in North America, in Greenland, 

 Davis' Straits, Baffin's Bay, and Melville Island. In Europe, 

 it has been noticed in Iceland at times in great numbers, 

 Sweden and the Ferroe Islands, Belgium, and Holland. 



Young birds of this species are occasionally killed on the 

 coast of Yorkshire; an adult specimen in one instance; another 

 in the possession of John Malcolm, Esq. A few stray along 

 the Northumbrian coast. One of these Gulls was shot in 

 Norfolk, in December, 1847, at Blakeney; one about the 19th. 

 of the same month in the previous year. In the year 1830, 

 three were killed on the 14th. of January, and several others 

 were obtained about the same time, one of which was in 

 adult plumage; another at Yarmouth, November 29th., 1851. 

 Immature birds are not unfrequently met with late in the 

 autumn; adult ones are very rare. In Oxfordshire, a specimen 

 was shot on Port- .Meadow, near Oxford, in the spring of 

 1836. One, an immature bird, at Scilly, in Cornwall, the end 

 of May or beginning of June, 1852. In Devonshire, one at 

 Laira, near Plymouth, January 30th., 1855; one previously. 

 In the London market a specimen was obtained in the winter 

 of the year 1838. 



In Scotland, two, both immature, were seen near Banff, 

 Aberdeenshire, in January, 1847. In Shetland, the young 



