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IVORY GULL. 
LARUS EBURNEUS. 
The Ivory Gull is a rare occasional winter visitant in 
the northern parts of Great Britain, its regular abode is 
in the highest northern latitudes, extending even beyond 
the highest parts to which travellers have penetrated. Dur¬ 
ing the summer months this species inhabits the borders 
of the Icy Sea, Spitzbergen, Bering’s Straits, Baffin’s Bay, 
the northern parts of Greenland, and Labrador. In America 
it extends from Hudson’s Bay further south than in Europe 
and Asia, since it comes to the northern parts of the United 
States. 
The chosen localities of the Ivory Gull are lofty icebergs 
and rocky shores, where it also breeds, but we are unable to 
say much on this subject, beyond the statements generally 
received, that great numbers of Ivory Gulls breed in the 
highest latitudes, making a nest of sea-weeds on the bare 
rocks, during the nominal summer of these unfriendly regions; 
and that the number of eggs in a nest consists of two or 
three ; these are olive-coloured, spotted with brown, and the 
