IVORY GULL. 195 



are clear grey marbled with black at their base, and 

 the rest of them are deep dusky tipped with white : 

 the quills are deep black and spotless : the beak is 

 black, with its base brown : the legs are dull yel- 

 low-ochre. During its summer state it has the top 

 of the head, the space round the eyes, the occiput, 

 and the neck of a pure unspotted white ; the rest of 

 the plumage as in the winter. 



This species chiefly resides on the shores of the 

 Mediterranean and of the Baltic : it is found, never- 

 theless, on some of the British coasts, Montagu having 

 observed and captured them on Ramsey Island, in 

 Pembrokeshire, where, he says, they breed in abun- 

 dance. They lay two or three eggs, grey-brown, 

 spotted with black. 



IVORY GULL. 



(Larus eburneus.) 



La. corpore toto niveo,pedibit,s nigris, rostro plumbeo apice pallida, 



Gull with the entire body snowy, the legs black, the beak lead- 

 colour, with its tip pale. 



Larus eburneus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 596. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 

 816. Sabine. Linn. Trans, xii. 548. 



Larus candidus. Fabr. Faun. Green. 67. 103. 



La Mouette blanche. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 422. Buff. PL 

 Enl. 994. Temm. man. d'Orn. 498. Id. 2 Edit. n. 769. 



Senator. Raii Syn. 126. 



Ivory Gull. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 457. Lath. Gen. Syn, 6.377. 

 Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 156. 



