4l0 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



not many off the South Cape and Horn Sound on the 26th ; but 

 on our way up to Green Harbour, in Is Fjord, that evening they 

 were very abundant, and were constantly to be seen in large 

 numbers during the whole time we were off the coast, until we 

 arrived off Vogelsang, about lat. 79° 55', where our progress was 

 stopped by an impenetrable field of ice, and where their num- 

 bers were small. They were breeding in most of the large 

 " loomeries " of mixed species. The only specimen I took has 

 hind toes.* 



9. Glaucous Gull {Larus glaucus, 6m.). — We first saw two 

 individuals of this species a short distance north of Bear Island, 

 but as we passed Bear Island in a thick fog on the way north, and 

 in a still thicker one on our way south, few or no birds were 

 observed thereabouts. A few seen off South Cape, and one 

 or two off Horn Sound : some in Is Fjord ; but they could hardly 

 be considered otherwise than scarce until we reached Magdalena 

 Bay, where they were numerous. None observed off Vogelsang, 

 our highest point north, but rather numerous in some parts 

 of Bell Sound, especially in a " loomery " between Separation 

 Point and Eden Island. They are chiefly to be seen (when 

 undisturbed) sitting on a pinnacle of rock or ice, whence they 

 have a good view of the surrounding scene. They appear to 

 breed for the most part very high up the cliffs, as remarked by 

 Professor Newton (loc. cit.) on the authority of Dr. Malmgren. 

 Individuals of this species vary considerably in size. All the 

 Glaucous Gulls that we saw were mature birds, with the exception 

 of two seen by me in Green Harbour on August 3rd (one shot) ; 

 one seen by Kjeldsen (I believe the same day, and therefore the 

 same locality) ; and one seen by Chapman on the following day 

 as we steamed along the coast on our way south. On a small 

 low-lying island in Van Keulen Bay (near Point Ahlstrand) I 

 picked up, on August 2nd, some tufts of feathers which had 

 belonged to immature Glaucous Gulls, which had apparently been 

 eaten by other birds. The young bird I shot is in the plumage of 

 one year old and upwards — that is, it has lost most of the brown 

 mottling; the secondaries are white, the primaries nearly so. 



f Vide Mr. H. Saunders on the Larlnce, P. Z. S., 1878, p. 164. He has 

 since found, I believe I am at liberty to state, that this is much more com- 

 mon than he was aware of at the time of writing. 



