. British birds. Birds. ] HABITS OF THE GLAUCOUS GULL. 3 the cliffs round the southern end of Bear Island, just above fiigh-water mark. From other evidence as well as this, the Glaucous Gull chooses a variety of nesting sites. Seebohm's party record the nests as mounds of sand with a hollowed apex scantily lined with sea-weed {Ibis, 1876, p. 453), and. NEST OF GLAUCOUS GULL. Edinburgh Islands, Spitsbergen. {Photographed by Scton Gordon.) Pearson found the birds nesting in sand dunes. We found the Gull breeding for the most part on sharply sloping grass inclines above precipitous sea-cli

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. British birds. Birds. ] HABITS OF THE GLAUCOUS GULL. 3 the cliffs round the southern end of Bear Island, just above fiigh-water mark. From other evidence as well as this, the Glaucous Gull chooses a variety of nesting sites. Seebohm's party record the nests as mounds of sand with a hollowed apex scantily lined with sea-weed {Ibis, 1876, p. 453), and. NEST OF GLAUCOUS GULL. Edinburgh Islands, Spitsbergen. {Photographed by Scton Gordon.) Pearson found the birds nesting in sand dunes. We found the Gull breeding for the most part on sharply sloping grass inclines above precipitous sea-cliffs some 600 ft. high. We also found it breeding some distance inland on the crags opposite Mount Humbergs, Bear Island, and at Ebba Valley,. 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 London, Witherby & Co

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