THE GLAUCOUS GULL. 
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Late in the month of July 1834 a second gull of this 
species was shot, near Youghal, by Mr. Ball, when I was in his 
company. On the 9th of that month he killed a third at the Islands 
of Arran (off Galway Bay), when we were together; — he has 
two of them preserved, and considers them in the plumage of 
the second year. In the Ordnance Museum are three specimens 
— one (young) from Strangford Lough, in December 1839; 
and two, one of which is adult, the other immature, from Moville, 
county of Londonderry. A young bird was caught on a spil- 
liard in Tralee Bay about the winter of 1 839, and early in the year 
1847 a second was seen to the west of Dingle (by Mr. B. Chute), 
and a third in Cork Harbour (by Dr. Harvey). One, stated to 
have been shot on the coast of Galway, in September 1846, has 
come under my notice.* About a small rocky islet off Achil, 
immature birds are said to have been observed during the summer. 
On the 3rd of January, 1849, a young individual in good condition 
was shot in Belfast Bay, and on the 26th of the month another 
of similar age was shot at the North Bull, Dublin Bay.f On 
the 31st of July, 1850, either an Iceland or glaucous gull was 
seen by Mr. Darragh within the railway embankment at Ballyma- 
carrett, a suburb of Belfast, on the south-east side of the bay ; 
he was quite near the bird, and considered from the size of bill 
that it was L. glaucus. At Waterford this species is stated to 
have been obtained. 
The glaucous gull appears, from the preceding instances of its 
occurrence, to visit the coast of Ireland as extensively as that 
of Great Britain. Though but few specimens have been pro- 
cured — nnd but one adult — they were from all sides of the coast. 
This bird does not breed even in the Shetland Islands, but retires 
northward of them for that purpose. 
The late Mr. G . Matthews, during his Norway tour, found a nest 
of the glaucous gull on an island a short way northward of the 
Ofiord river. It contained one young bird, in a bare hollow of 
the ground, and just the colour of the stones and moss around it. 
In Mr. Watters’ collection. 
f Mr. R. J. Montgomery. 
