. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . 80 ICELAND GULL. WHITE-WINGED SILVERY GULL. Larus leucopierus. Fabkr. Eyton. Temminck. Ice/undicus, Flkming. Selby. Jenyns. Gould. glaucoides, Temminck, «* arcticus, Macgillivray. Larus—A. ravenous sea-bird. Leucopierus. Leucos—Ieucon—White, Pteron—A wing. This Gull occurs plentifully in North America, in Greenland,Davis Straits, Baffins Bay, and Melville Island. In Europe,it has been noticed in Iceland at times in great numbers,Sweden and the Ferroe Islands, Belgium, and Holland. Young birds of this species are occasionally killed on
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . 80 ICELAND GULL. WHITE-WINGED SILVERY GULL. Larus leucopierus. Fabkr. Eyton. Temminck. Ice/undicus, Flkming. Selby. Jenyns. Gould. glaucoides, Temminck, «* arcticus, Macgillivray. Larus—A. ravenous sea-bird. Leucopierus. Leucos—Ieucon—White, Pteron—A wing. This Gull occurs plentifully in North America, in Greenland,Davis Straits, Baffins Bay, and Melville Island. In Europe,it has been noticed in Iceland at times in great numbers,Sweden and the Ferroe Islands, Belgium, and Holland. Young birds of this species are occasionally killed on thecoast of Yorkshire; an adult specimen in one instance; anotherin the possession of John Malcolm, Esq. A few stray alongthe Northumbrian coast. One of these Gulls was shot inNorfolk, in December, 1847, at Blakeney; one about the the same month in the previous year. In the year 1830,three were killed on the 14th. of January, and several otherswere obtained about the same time, one of which was inadult plumage; another at Yarmouth, Novem
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