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ICELAND GULL, 
Additio7ial Account of the Icelaiid Gull, 
By Mr Laurence Edmpndston» 
{Read %M March 1822.) 
In February, last year, a paper was read to the Society^ 
describing an interesting species of Gull, which I had first 
met with in the Zetland Islands in 1809, and which is. 
known there by the name of Iceland Gull. A specimen 
was at the same time exhibited ; and, though a young bird, 
and not arrived at mature plumage, it sufficiently displayed 
the more prominent external distinctions of its species. 
I have since, however, been fortunate enough to procure 
an adult bird, which will more clearly confirm the opinion 
of its being a distinct species, and establish the accuracy of 
what I formerly suggested regarding it. 
This specimen, which is now exhibited, and is submitted 
to the examination of the Society, weighed 5 pounds ; its 
breadth, between the wings, was 5 feet 2 inches ; the length, 
from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail, 2 feet 5 inches. 
The back and upper part of the wings pale-blue, head and 
neck streaked with grey. The upper part of the two middle 
tail-feathers ashy, but this appearance is quite accidental 
and unimportant ; the rest of the plumage and the primary 
quills white ; irides pale-yellow ; the claws are dusky ; the 
feet and legs much like those of the Herring Gull, but 
