THE GLAUCOUS GULL. 389 



Late in the month of July 1834 a second gull of this 

 species was shot, near Youghal, by Mr. Ball, when I was in his 

 company. On the 9th of that month he killed a third at the Islands 

 of Arran (off Galway Bay), when we were together; — he has 

 two of them preserved, and considers them in the plumage of 

 the second year. In the Ordnance Museum are three specimens 

 — one (young) from Strangford Lough, in December 1839; 

 and two, one of which is adult, the other immature, from Moville, 

 county of Londonderry. A young bird was caught on a spil- 

 liard in Tralee Bay about the winter of 1839, and early in the year 

 1817 a second was seen to the west of Dingle (by Mr. R. Chute), 

 and a third in Cork Harbour (by Dr. Harvey). One, stated to 

 have been shot on the coast of Galway^ in September 1846, has 

 come under my notice."^ About a small rocky islet off Acliil, 

 immature birds are said to liave been observed during the summer. 

 On the 3rd of January, 1849, a young individual in good condition 

 was shot in Belfast Bay, and on the 26th of the mouth another 

 of similar age was shot at the North Bull, Dublin Bay.f On 

 the 31st of July, 1850, either an Iceland or glaucous gull was 

 seen by Mr. Darragh within the railway embankment at Ballyma- 

 carrett, a suburb of Belfast, on the south-east side of the bay; 

 he was quite near the bird, and considered from the size of bill 

 that it was L. glaucus. At Waterford this species is stated to 

 have been obtained. 



The glaucous gull appears, from the preceding instances of its 

 occurrence, to visit the coast of Ireland as extensively as that 

 of Great Britain. Though but few specimens have been pro- 

 cured — and but one adult — they were from all sides of the coast. 

 This bird does not breed even in the Shetland Islands, but retires 

 northward of them for that purpose. 



The late Mr. G . Matthews, during liis Norway tour, found a nest 

 of the glaucous gull on an island a short way northward of the 

 Ofiord river. It contained one young bird, in a bare hollow of 

 the ground, and just the colour of the stones and moss around it. 



* lu Mr. Walters' collection. t Mr. 11. J. Moutgomery. 



