GLAUCOUS GULL 243 
Irish Sea, round which it occurs, not very abundantly, out 
of the nesting season. Numbers nest on the Bird Rock 
near Nevin; it breeds also on Ormes Head and on Puffin 
Island. It is a well-known inhabitant of the wildest preci- 
pices of the Scottish isles. It breeds on many of the 
more precipitous headlands and islands of Britain. 
LARUS GLAUCUS, O. Fabricius. GLAUCOUS 
GULL. 
Mr. Kermode has in the Ramsey Museum a specimen 
(immature) shot by Mr. Kinvig, of Castletown, in the 
southern district in 1880, and he states that the same 
gentleman saw an adult bird in 1886. A specimen (the 
last mentioned or another) is in Mr. Kinvig’s own collec- 
tion, and it is in similar plumage to that at Ramsey. In 
January 1898 another immature specimen was received by 
Mr. G. Adams from Mr. Corrin of Peel; and in the early 
part of 1901 still another was killed on Lynague’ beach, 
German, and came into the possession of Mr. Kermode of 
Lynague * farm. 
There have been several occurrences in Down and 
Antrim, and a few on the opposite coast of England; 
the species has also been (rarely) obtained in Galloway. 
It is a regular winter visitant to Shetland, but is much 
scarcer in Orkney, and its degree of abundance in the Outer 
Hebrides has scarcely been determined. It is a northern 
bird, and most frequent on the northern parts of our own 
coasts. 
1 Ordnance Sheet, ‘ Lhiannag.’ 
