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Mantle pale bluish gray ; primaries marked near their ends with Mack, the tips being 
white ; bill yellowish green crossed with a black band. (Pr. Bonaparte puts this species 
in Lams.) , L. delaioarensis. 
Mantle light pearl blue ; primaries black near their ends, with white tips ; bill rather 
small and slender L. suckleyi. 
LARUS GLAUCUS, Brunnich. 
The Glaucous Gull; The Burgomaster. 
Larus glaucus, Brunn. Orn. Bor. 1764, 44.— Bonap. Synop. 1828, No. 302.— Rich. & Sw. F. B. A. II, 1831, 416.— 
Nutt. Man. II, 1834, 306.— Aud. Birds Amer. VII, 1844, 170 ; pi. ccccxlix. 
Laroides glaucus, Bruch, Cab. Journ. 1855, 281. 
Leucus glaucus, Bonap. Cons. Av. II, 1856, 215. 
" Larus consul, Boie." 
" Larus glacialis, Macgill " 
Sp. Ch. — Mult. The head, neck, rump, tail, and entire under plumage pure white ; the back and wings are of a light bluish 
gray ; the edge of the wing, the ends of the first primaries, and the shafts and tips of the others white. Bill gamboge yellow, 
with a spot of reddish orange near the end of the lower mandible ; irides light yellow ; legs and feet flesh color. 
Length, 30 inches ; alar extent, 60 ; wing, from flexure, J9i ; tail, 8^ ; tarsus 2|^ ; bill, along the ridge, 2J. 
Hob. — Arctic seas ; Labrador ; New York in winter, rarely. 
Individuals appear to vary considerably from the above measurements, some being much 
smaller ; but Capt. Sabine found one example to measure 32 inches, with an extent of wing of 
65 inches ; its tarsus was 3^ inches in length, and its bill 4 inches. 
The young have the upper plumage pale yellowish white, mottled with very pale brown ; 
breast and abdomen gray ; tail white, irregularly spotted with pale brown ; bill yellow for two- 
thirds its length and terminating with blackish brown. 
LABUS GLAUCESCENS, Li chtenstein. 
The Glaucous- winged Gull. 
" Laroides glaucescens, Licht." Bruch, Rev. Lar. in Cab. Jour. 1855, 281. 
Leucus glaucescens, Bon. Cons. Av. II, 185G, 216. 
" Laroides glaucoplerus, Kittl." Brdch, Rev. Lar. in Cab. Jour. 1855, 281. 
? Larus brachyrhynchus, Gould. 
Sp. Ch. — Mult. Head and neck white, streaked with gray ; under surface, rump, and tail pure white ; back and wings light 
pearl blue (same shade as in L. argenlutus ;) the primaries are of the same color, but rather darker, with well defined white 
tips ; on the first quill the white extends on the tip for about two inches and is crossed by a bar of the same color as the prima- 
ries ; iris white ; bill yellow, with an orange red spot on the angle of the lower mandible ; legs and feet flesh color. 
Length, 27| inches ; wing, 161 ; tail, 7| ; bill along ridge, 2i, deep at base, 11-16, at angle, 12-16 ; tarsi, 2 9-16 ; middle toe 
and claw, 2|. 
Young mottled with grayish white and cinereous ; the quills and tail bluish ash ; bill black, in some specimens yellowish at 
base ; legs and feet dusky flesh color. 
Hab. — Northwest coast of North America. 
In the collection are a number of specimens of this fine gull, from quite young to fully adult ; 
it is nearly equal in size to L. glaucus, but with a less powerful bill and more slender tarsi. 
I have not seen the original description of L. glaucescens, the locality of which is Kamtschatka, 
but the description of it by Bruch in bjjs 11 Revision der Gattung Larus, Linn." in Cabanis 
