. An illustrated manual of British birds . THE GLAUCOUS glaucus, O. Fabricius. This large white-winged Gull—equal in size to the precedingspecies, is a visitor to our islands during the colder months of theyear, especially to the northern districts ; but although sometimesobserved in the Shetlands until June, it has never been known tobreed there, or even in the Freroes. In severe winters it is some-times abundant in Great Britain, immature birds, of course, formingthe majority ; but south of Norfolk it is of irregular appearance,and in the west of England it is rare, although, as i
. An illustrated manual of British birds . THE GLAUCOUS glaucus, O. Fabricius. This large white-winged Gull—equal in size to the precedingspecies, is a visitor to our islands during the colder months of theyear, especially to the northern districts ; but although sometimesobserved in the Shetlands until June, it has never been known tobreed there, or even in the Freroes. In severe winters it is some-times abundant in Great Britain, immature birds, of course, formingthe majority ; but south of Norfolk it is of irregular appearance,and in the west of England it is rare, although, as it happens, thesubject of the illustration was shot on the Severn in the winter of1840. In Ireland it is seldom met with. The Glaucous (ruU is common and resident in Iceland, and isfound during summer throughout the entire circumpolar regions ofthe Old and the New World ; but it abandons the highest latitudes 664 GLAUCOUS during the winter time, when its migrations extend as far southas the Straits of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean
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