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LARIDt: 
NAT A TORES. 
LARIDM. 
PLATE CCCVIIL 
ICELAND GULL. 
LARUS ISLANDICUS. 
The Iceland Gull, which resembles the last-described 
species in many respects, and has consequently been fre¬ 
quently mistaken for that species, is a winter visitant in 
Great Britain, but seems chiefly confined to the Shetland 
Islands. 
Like the glaucus gull, the Iceland Gull is an inhabitant 
of the cold northern regions of our globe, but is more 
frequently met with on the western coast of Greenland, 
Baffin’s Bay, and Iceland, than in an eastern direetion. 
During the summer months the Iceland Gull frequents the 
highest northern shores for the purposes of breeding, and in 
the winter seeks the more sheltered inlets of Iceland, the 
northern provinces of the United States of America, and our 
shores. 
The present species is a decided inhabitant of the sea, 
where it is either seen following the track of the large sea 
fishes, herrings. Sec,, or resting on projecting rocks or floating 
