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GLAUCOUS GULL. 



"BURGOMASTER. LARGE WHITE-WINGED GULL. 



Larus glaucus, BEWICK. FLEMING. SELBY. 



" ' JENYNS. GOULD TEMMINCK. 



Larus & ravenous sea-bird. Glaucus Grey sky-coloured. 



As appertaining to Europe, the Glaucous Gull builds in 

 Iceland and Spitzbergen, and specimens have occurred in the 

 Baltic, in Sweden and Norway. It is common in Russia, and 

 individuals have been met with in Germany; Belgium, as 

 mentioned by M. DeSelys Longchamps; at Dunkirk, in France; 

 Italy, at Genoa, a single specimen in the winter of 1817. 

 In America, in Greenland, about Baffin's Bay, Davis' Straits, 

 Felix Harbour, and in various regions among the Polar seas, 

 as also in the United States. 



A mature specimen was obtained in Yorkshire, at Scarborough, 

 in December, 1853; one at Rossington, in the West-Riding; 

 considerable numbers of old birds were seen on the coast in 

 the year 1830; the young occur every year. The Rev. Leonard 

 Jenyns recorded one met with in Cambridgeshire. In Norfolk, 

 one was killed at Horsea, and one at Blakeney, in December, 

 1847; the former was shot while perched on a Coot which 

 had just before fallen to the gun, and on which it had then 

 pounced; four were taken at Cromer, in January, 1850, two 

 of them adult birds, but most of the specimens that have 

 occurred have been in immature plumage; another, also an adult, 

 at Yarmouth, November 29th., 1851; others also there, and 

 three at Thornham, in the winter of 1836. Two were seen, 

 and one of them obtained, at Ramsgate, in Kent, in 1846; 

 both were young birds. In Sussex, one was caught near Sea- 

 ford about the 20th. of December, 1852. In Devonshire, some 

 have been obtained near Plymouth. Others in Cornwall. One 



