. The water birds of North America . ores of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and to the connecting portions of the Arc-tic Sea. It is peculiarly a high northern species, being found in the Arctic Regionsof Europe and Asia, and in the more northern portions of North America. In thePacific it appears to be to a large extent replaced, on the American shore, by theglauoescens. Messrs. Evaus and Sturge, in their visit to Spitsbergen, found it breeding in im- 1 Macgillivray (Hist. Brit. P». V. 563, 564) describes the fresh colors of the bill, etc., in the young asfollows : Young: The bill is horn-c
. The water birds of North America . ores of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and to the connecting portions of the Arc-tic Sea. It is peculiarly a high northern species, being found in the Arctic Regionsof Europe and Asia, and in the more northern portions of North America. In thePacific it appears to be to a large extent replaced, on the American shore, by theglauoescens. Messrs. Evaus and Sturge, in their visit to Spitsbergen, found it breeding in im- 1 Macgillivray (Hist. Brit. P». V. 563, 564) describes the fresh colors of the bill, etc., in the young asfollows : Young: The bill is horn-color, or pale yellowish gray ; tin- upper mandible brownish black be-yond the nostrils ; the lower beyond the angle. The feet are flesh-color ; the claws lightish brown. Young,in third winter: The bill is yellowish flesh-color, with only a dusky spot on each mandible toward tinend ; iris dull gray ; the edges of the eyelids yellow ; the feet flesh-color ; the claws light grayish black. — THE HULLS AND TERXS — LARUS. 213. mense numbers. They speak of its nest as being large and untidy, formed of sea-weed, and usually containing three eggs. The nests were found on the shore, or,more often, on the low rocks, and in one or two instances were even built on massesof ice. This Gull was observed to act in a very tyrannical manner toward the weakerbirds in its vicinity. Its plumage was so very dense that it could only with the great-est difficulty be penetratedby shot. Its eggs werehardly distinguishable fromthose of Lams marimis. Professor Alfred New-ton, in his paper on theOrnithology of Spitzber-gen, speaks of finding thisGull far less numerous thanthe Kittiwakes, but prob-ably extending its rangealong the entire coast ofthe country. Sir James Ross refers tothis species as being abun-dant on the shores of LowIsland, although it was notseen north of latitude 81°. Professor Newtons friend, who went to the eastward from the Thousand Islands,met with many young Burgomaster
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