CHAP. III.] 
THE GLAUCOUS GULL. 
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guillemots. On Bear Island I have seen it hatch on the very 
beach, at a place, for instance, under the arch of a waterfall 
leaping down from a precipitous cliff. The nests, which, to 
judge from the quantity of birds’ dung in their neighbourhood, 
are used for a long succession of years, are placed in a depression 
in the rock or the ground, and lined with a little straw or a 
B 
A. THE KITTIWAKE, B. THE IVORY GULL. 
Swedish, KrycMa. (Lanis tridactylus, L.) Swedish, Ismaos. (Larus eburneus, L.) 
feather or two. The number of the eggs is three or four. 
After boiling they show a jellylike, half transparent white, and 
a reddish yellow, and are exceedingly delicious. The young 
birds have white flesh, resembling chicken. The burgomaster 
is common everywhere along the coasts of Novaya Zemlya and 
Spitzbergen. Yet I have not seen the nest of .this gull on the 
north coast of North East Land or on the Seven Islands. 
