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specimen was shot in Balta Sound, Shetland ; an- 
other was killed in the Firth of Clyde, both in 
immature plumage; since it has only beeD again 
noticed once, as recorded by Mr. Thompson in his 
report on the Fauna of Ireland, a specimen being 
noticed in a field near Tralee. On the conti- 
nental shores it is also very rtire, appearing, ac- 
cording to northern ornithologists, more frequently 
northward. Its proper resorts are the high Arctic 
latitudes, where it is met with both by the whaling 
vessels and by nearly all the northern expeditions. 
Dr. Richardson observed it breeding on the cliffs of 
Cape Parry in lat. 70°. 
An Arctic specimen of this bird is entirely pure 
white. In the dried state, the bill is dark at the 
base, apparently greenish grey, the tip before the 
nostrils yellowish ; the feet and legs brownish black, 
very little unfeathered space above the tarsal joint ; 
the feet small, the webs deeply cut. In the young 
state it is more or less varied with blackish grey and 
brown. 
The Kittiwake, Larus rissa, Linn. — RUsa 
Brunnichii, Steph. — Mouette tridactyle , Temm . — 
Kittiwake of British authors ( Tarrock , the young). 
• — This small but handsome species is truly maritime 
in habits, and recedes slightly from the type in the 
imperfect development of the hallux, the backward 
position of the legs, and the weaker tarsi. It is a 
bird widely distributed, and breeds in most suitable 
localities on all our shores from Shetland to the Isle 
