433 



LARUS GLAUCUS. 



(GLAUCOUS GULL.) 



Burgermeister, Martin, Spitsb. oder Groenl. Reise, p. 60, tab. l. fig. c (1675). 



Larus glaucus, Briinn. Orn. Bor. p. 44 (1764). 



Larus glaucus, Fabricius, Faun. Groenl. p. 100 (1780, ex Briinn.). 



"Larus giganteus, Temm.," Benicken, Ann. Wetter. Gesellsch. iii. p. 140 (1814). 



Larus leuceretes, Schleep, Neue Ann. Wetter. Gesellsch. i. p. 314 (1819). 



Larus consul, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 875. 



Larus glacialis, Macg. Mem. Wern. Soc. v. pt. i. p. 270 (1824). 



Leucus glaucus (Fabr.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 86 (1829). 



Larus hutchinsii, Richards. Faun. Bor. -Am. ii. p. 419 (1831). 



Glaucus consul (Boie), Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1853, p. 101. 



Laroides glaucus (Fabr.), Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1855, p. 281. 



Plautus glaucus, Reichenb. fide Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. p 215 (1857). 



Eismove, German ; Be Burgemeester, Dutch ; Graamaage, Perlemaage, Danish ; Maasi, 

 Feeroese ; Naya, Nayavek, Nayainak, Greenlandic ; Hvit-mdfur, Grd-mdfur, Icelandic ; 

 Stor hvitvingad Trut, Swedish ; Morskaia-Tschaika, Russian. 



Figures notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Palmipedes, pi. 12 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 42 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 56. 

 fig. 8 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 264 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 79. fig. 2 : Gould, 

 B. of Eur. pi. 432; id. B. of G. Brit. v. pi. 57; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pis. 340, 341; 

 Audub. B. of Am. pi. 449. 



Ad. ptil. test, albus, dorso et alis supra pallide cseruleo-cinereis : pedibus pallide carneis : rostro flavo, mandi- 

 bula. versus apicem plaga magna rubra notata : iride palbde fiava, marginibus palpebrarum rubris. 



Ad. ptil. Mem. capite et collo pallide fusco-cinereo striatis. 



Juv. capite et collo sordide albidis, profuse pallide fusco-cinereo striatis : corpore supra albido, pallide fusco- 

 cinereo adumbrato et fasciato : corpore subtiis pallide fusco-cinereo, vix albido notato : hypochondriis, 

 abdomine imo et subcaudalibus magis albidis. 



Adult Male (Greenland). Mantle pearl-grey or very pale blue-grey; entire rest of the plumage pure white; 

 legs light flesh-colour ; beak yellow, with a red patch towards the tip of the lower mandible ; iris light 

 yellow ; the edge of the eyelid bright vermilion-red. Total length about 27 inches, culmen 3*1, wing 

 18-6, tail 8-5, tarsus 2'8. 



Adult Female. Resembles the male. 



Young (near Stockholm, 18th February). Head and neck dull white, closely striped with pale brownish 



3u 2 



