BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
The Glaucous Gull is a circumpolar breeding-species, and 
is a visitor to the northern parts of the British Isles during 
the colder months, being more frequently met with in severe 
weather, but always more rarely in the south. Its migra- 
tions in winter extend to the shores of the Mediterranean, 
Black and Caspian Seas in Europe, Japan and California 
in the Pacific, to the Great Lakes, Mississippi, Florida and 
Texas in America. 
THE ICELAND GULL. Lams leucopterus, Faber. 
Has occurred twice. 
On February 8th, 1835, an immature specimen of the 
Iceland Gull was kiUed on the coast near Browhouses* 
(Gretna). H. A. Macpherson, writing of this occurrence, 
says : " Mr. T. C. Heysham recorded, as new to Cumberland, 
an immature Iceland Gull kiUed on the Solway at Brow- 
houses ; but Mr. Heysham evidently mistook the exact 
locality of Browhouses, which is on the Scotch, not on the 
English, side."t Six years later, however, in his Vertebrate 
Fauna of Lakeland, the same author refers thus to the 
specimen : " The late Mr. T. C. Heysham was the first 
naturaUst to record the occurrence of this Gull in Lakeland. 
The specimen which he obtained had been killed on the 
Solway Firth on the 8th of February, 1835."{ Browhouses, 
as has been stated, is in Scotland, in the parish of Gretna, 
and this occurrence of the Iceland Gull is therefore confidently 
claimed for Dumfriesshire. 
Sir WiUiam Jardine writes in 1843 : We have occasionally 
seen what we considered to be this bird, on the shores of the 
Solway "§ ; and in a MS. note in his personal copy of the 
* Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. IX., 1836, p. 187. 
t Birds of Cumberland, 1886, p. 169. 
J Fauna of Lakeland, 1892, p. 436. 
§ Nat. Lib., 1843, Vol. XIV., p. 308. 
