. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARID^. 6S9. THE WEDGE-TAILED GULL. Rhodost^thia r6sea, Macgillivray. An example of this Gull in winter-plumage passed through the hands of Graham, the notorious bird-stuffer of York, and was said to have been shot near Tadcaster in December 1846 or February 1847 > it was afterwards purchased by the late Sir Wm. M. E. Milner, and is now in the Museum of Leeds. According to several experts, it presents the appearance of a specimen which has been mounted from a relaxed skin, and not direct from ' the flesh '; but inasmuch as this Arctic species
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARID^. 6S9. THE WEDGE-TAILED GULL. Rhodost^thia r6sea, Macgillivray. An example of this Gull in winter-plumage passed through the hands of Graham, the notorious bird-stuffer of York, and was said to have been shot near Tadcaster in December 1846 or February 1847 > it was afterwards purchased by the late Sir Wm. M. E. Milner, and is now in the Museum of Leeds. According to several experts, it presents the appearance of a specimen which has been mounted from a relaxed skin, and not direct from ' the flesh '; but inasmuch as this Arctic species wandered to Heligoland in February 1858, and to the Fseroes in 1863, there is no inherent improbability of its occurrence in Yorkshire, and it has been generally admitted to the British list. This beautiful rose-breasted bird is often called Ross's Gull, after the late Sir James C. Ross, who discovered it on June 23rd 1823 on Melville Peninsula, during Parry's second Expedition, while it was subsequently observed at Felix Harbour, Boothia ; and several examples were seen on Parry's boat-voyage to the northward of Spits- bergen, as well as in Hinlopen Strait. At long intervals, six speci- mens were obtained in Greenland prior to 1885, and two immature birds in the Mainz Museum are said to have come from Kamchatka. The Austro-Hungarian Expedition procured one on Franz Josef Land, and Baron von Nordenskiold's party in the ' Vega ' shot one 3 E 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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