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LARUS GLAUCUS. 
GLAUCOUS GULL. 
White ; back and wings hoary ; quill- 
feathers tipt with white ; beak yellow, 
saffron at the angle. 
Larus Glaucus, Lin. Gme. 
Goeland Burgermeister, Larus Glau- 
cus, Tern. 
Glaucus Gull, Pen. Turton. 
Iceland Gull, Bew. 
Mantle of a bluish ash-colour ; legs 
livid ; length of the tarsus two inches ten 
or eleven lines ; quills terminated by a 
large white spot ; shafts white. (Tem- 
minck.) 
This species of Gull is new to the 
British Ornithologist : a specimen (shot 
in Northumberland) is in the collection of 
