148 GULL. 



Said to have come from Shetland, but it differs in many tilings 

 from the Wagel ; for the colours, though not much unlike, are 

 differently blended ; and again, this bird is darker beneath, but in 

 the Wagel the under parts are paler; the bill, too, in this species is 

 longer, and wholly yellow, which is in the Wagel dark-coloured, 

 if not black. 



Mr. Edmondston, in the Wern. Trans, describes the adult in 

 length two feet five inches, breadth five feet two inches, and weight 

 five pounds: the back and upper part of the wings pale blue ; irides 

 pale yellow ; head and neck streaked with grey, the rest of the 

 plumage and prime quills white ; feet and legs like those of the 

 Herring Gull, but larger. Some specimens vary, in having scarcely 

 any grey on the head and neck, and supposed to be the most perfect 

 birds. — The above inhabits Iceland and Shetland ; in the latter 

 about Balta Sound ; seen sometimes by more than 100 in a flock; 

 but more frequent in the Island of Unst. The place of breeding 

 unknown. Is called in Iceland Scorie : the plumage very dense, so 

 as to render it difficult to be penetrated, unless with large shot: is 

 saitl to have a great partiality for carrion. 



I. 3.- GLAUCOUS GULL 



Larus glaucus, lad. Ora. ii. 814. Gm. Lin. i. 600. Brun. No. 148. Midler, No. 



169. Fa. groenl. No. 64. Act. Holm. iv. p. 97. 1. Lin. Trans, xii. p. 543. 



Ross's Voi/. Ap. p. liv. Tern. Man. 495. Id. Ed. 2d. 758. Parr. App. p. cciii. 

 Larus cinereus, Bris. vi. p. 160.2. Id. 8vo. ii. 404. Geria. v. pi. 533. 

 Goeland a manteau gris, Bvf. viii. 406. pi. 32. PI. enl. 253.* 

 Le Bourgmeister Buf. viii. 418. 



Burgmeister, Mart. Spitsb. p. 60. t. L. F. D. Naum. Fog. t. 35. 

 Groote Zee-Meeuw, Sepp, Vog. t. p. 195. 

 Weisschwingfige Meve, Bechst. Dents. Ed. ii. Vo. iv. 662. 

 Glaucous Gull, Gen. Syn. vi. 374. Arct.Zool. ii. 532. B. Id. Sup. p 70. 



* The engraver seems to have omitted the back toe, though it is sufficiently expressed 

 in Button's figure. 



