ORNITHOLOGY. 



PLATE LXVIII. 



LARUS GLAUCUS 

 GLAUCOUS GULL 



Anseres. 



generic character. 



Bill straight, sharp edged, a little hooked at the tip and without 

 teeth : lower mandible gibbous below the point : nostrils linear, 

 broader on the fore part, and placed in the middle of the bill. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



White, back and wings hoary ; quill feathers white at the ex- 

 tremity ; bill yellow, at the angle saffron. 



Larus Glaucus : albus, dorso alisque canis, remigibus apice 

 albis, rostri flavi angulo croceo. Oedm. nov. act, 

 StocJch. 1783. n, I, p, 96. n. 1. Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat I. 600. 17. 



