Capture op tiie Glaucous Gull (Larus glaucus ) on Long Island, 
N. Y. — I procured a specimen of tlxis handsome Arctic species in Fulton 
Market, New York, on March 4, 1880. It had been brought in on that 
day from Long Island, where it was shot. It is an excellent example of 
the condition described by Richardson as L. hutchinsi, and which Mr. 
Geo. N. Lawrence has previously recorded from Long Island (Ann. Lyc. 
Nat. Hist., Vol. VIII, p. 299). Hutchins’s Gull is considered by Mr. 
Howard Saunders (see his review of the Larina , in Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society of London, 1878) to be that very brief stage through 
which L. glaucus passes in changing from the immature to the adult 
plumage. This state is so uncommon that I append a description of my 
bird: —Rump, upper and under tail-coverts, and outer tail-feathers, 
white, very indistinctly marked with irregularly-transverse bars of pale 
grayish-brown; breast and abdomen very faintly washed with the same; 
residue of plumage, including back, and dorsal surface of wings, entirely 
pure white; shafts of quills, straw-yellow. Irides, white. Bill, flesh-col¬ 
ored on basal half, succeeded by a wide band of blue-black, with extreme 
tip whitish. Legs and feet flesh-colored; nails black, tipped with horn- 
color. Dimensions: Length, 29.00 inches; extent of wings, 67.00; wing 
from carpal joint, 18.00; tail, 7.55; bill along culmen, 2.50; gape, 3.70; 
depth opposite nostrils, .82; tarsus, 2.88 ; middle toe and claw, 2.90; toe 
alone, 2.45; claw, .55. — Edgar A. Mearns, Highland Falls, N. Y. 
Bull, N,O.O. 5, July, 1880, p. /Sf- /9&- 
20 ^. Larus glaucus. Glaucous Gull; Ice Gull. — I have seen a 
specimen of this boreal species that was killed while feeding on carrion, 
in the town of Bangor in Franklin Co., about two years ago. —C. Hart 
Merriam, M.D., Locust Grove, N. V. 
BULL N.Q.Q, 7, Oct, 1882, p.257 
Bird Notes from Long Id. Wm. Dutcher 
5 . Larus glaucus Briinn. Glaucous Gull; Burgomaster. —March 
11 , 1884 , I purchased one of a pair of Gulls of this species, which had 
been shot by a gunner at South Oyster Bay. The specimen I bought is 
in very nearly the same plumage as the one recorded by Dr. E. A. Mearns 
in the ‘Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club,’ Vol. V, p. 189 . The 
other one is a younger bird. 
Auk, 2, Jan., 1885, p. 3 7- 
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Auk, XII, July . 1395, P .3lZ, 
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Larus glaucus. Glaucous Gull. — One shot on Niagara River, Jan¬ 
uary 29 , 1895 , which I saw at a taxidermist’s shop two days later. 
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