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Allen’s naturalist’s library. 
Young. — Similar to the winter plumage of the adult and wanting 
the black collar. The head, neck, and under surface of the 
body white, with a greyish shade on the crown and a little black 
behind the eye ; tail wedge-shaped and having a black band at 
the end of all the feathers except the outer ones j feathers of 
the rump and upper tail-coverts tipped with black ; wing-coverts 
and innermost secondaries black, with indistinct white tips, 
forming a band down the wing ; bastard-wing and primary- 
coverts black ; primaries black along the outer web and on the 
inner side of the shaft, the rest of the inner web white, which 
cuts across the end of the inner primaries and forms a sub- 
terminal bar; the innermost primaries white, with a black tip; 
the secondaries white ; tarsi and toes brown. 
Eange in Great Britain. — One specimen of the Wedge-tail Gull 
has been recorded from England, having been said to have been 
shot near Tadcaster, in December, 1846, or February, 1847. 
This e.xaraple, formerly in Sir W. Milner’s collection, is now in 
the Leeds Museum. Some doubt has been thrown on the 
autlienticity of the occurrence, as the specimen appears, in the 
opinion of several naturalists, to have been mounted from a 
skin and not from a freshly killed bird. As Mr. Saunders points 
out, however, the species has occurred in Heligoland, and there 
is nothing improbable in its having turned up in Yorkshire, to 
which I may add that it would have been difficult for a dealer 
to have purchased a skin fifty years ago. 
Eange outside the British Islands. — The folloiving range for this 
species is given by Mr. Howard Saunders ; — “ Arctic Regions, 
N.W. Greenland (Disco); Melville Peninsula; Boothia; Point 
Barrow', N. Alaska, coming from the direction of Plerald 
Island; St. Michael’s, .Maska (once); icy .sea from Bering 
Strait to the mouth of the Lena ; Barents Sea between Franz- 
Josef Land and Spitsbergen, including the latter; Faeroe 
Islands (once); Yorkshire (once); Heligoland (once).” Dr. 
Nansen discovered the breeding-jilace of this sjiecies on some 
islands which he has called Hvitenland, in lat. 80° 38' N., 
long. 63° E. He writes in the “Daily Chronicle,” of 
November, 3, 1896: — 
“ This, the most markedly polar of all bird forms, is easily 
