. A history of British birds . wish-grey; upper and under tail-coverts dull white, barredwith pale brown; tail-feathers uniform yellowish-brown ;wings only reaching to the end of the tail; chin, throat,and breast dull white, mottled with pale brown, belly moreuniform in colour, and greyish-brown; legs and feet lividflesh-colour. The next year the mottlings become paler ;and just before the final autumnal moult, when the pearl-greymantle will be assumed, the colour is of a nearly uniformcreamy or even jjerfect white. Birds in this particular stage,which lasts but a very short time, are very rar
. A history of British birds . wish-grey; upper and under tail-coverts dull white, barredwith pale brown; tail-feathers uniform yellowish-brown ;wings only reaching to the end of the tail; chin, throat,and breast dull white, mottled with pale brown, belly moreuniform in colour, and greyish-brown; legs and feet lividflesh-colour. The next year the mottlings become paler ;and just before the final autumnal moult, when the pearl-greymantle will be assumed, the colour is of a nearly uniformcreamy or even jjerfect white. Birds in this particular stage,which lasts but a very short time, are very rarely obtained;and on one example procured in North America Richard-son bestowed the name of Lams Initchinsi; similar ones havesince then been taken in Japan and in Norway, and theEditor has seen birds pass through this stage in the Gardensof the Zoological Society. The downy nestling is of a somewhat greyer tint than theyoung Herring Gull, and the markings on the back arefewer and fainter. VOL. III. 642 GA VLE. Lakus leucopterus, Fabei-.*THE ICELAND GULL, OR LESSER WHITE-WINGED GULL, Lams Icelandicus. This White-winged Gull bears about the same proportionin size to the Glaucous Gull that the Lesser Black-backedGull does to the Great Black-backed Gull. It was firstrecorded as a winter visitor to the British Islands by Dr. * Prodromus Orniihologic, p. 91 (1822). ICELAND GULL. 643 Lawrence Edmoiiston, of Unst, in Shetland; and since itsspecific distinctness from the Glaucous Gull has been recog-nized, it has proved to be a tolerably frequent, although asomewhat irregular, visitor to our shores. According to , Gray, immature birds occur almost every year on theeastern side of Scotland, from Shetland to Berwick, and onthe west from Skye to Ayrshire, although adults are winter of 1872-3, which saw such an unusual arrivalof Glaucous Gulls in the Firth of Forth, was still moreremarkable for the occurrence of the Iceland Gull; and thefollowi
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