Plate CCLXXXV. Fig. 1, Male.
Tail of moderate length, forked; bill of moderate length, rather
slender, black, with the terminal third yellow; feet black; head and
upper part of neck all round blackish-grey, that colour terminated by
a collar of pure black; lower neck all round, the whole lower surface,
upper tail-coverts, and tail, pure white; back and wings bluish-grey,
excepting a large terminal portion of the secondaries, and the tips of
the primaries, which are white, the primaries themselves being black,
with their shafts brownish-black.
_Male_, 13, 33.
Accidental as far south in winter, as New York. Rather common along
the coast of Nova Scotia. Breeds in Newfoundland, and along the coasts
of the Arctic Seas. Seen on the banks of Newfoundland in great
numbers.
Larus Sabini, Fork-tailed Gull, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer.
v. ii. p. 428.
Fork-tailed Gull, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 295.
Forked-tailed Gull, Larus Sabini, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p.
561.
** Tail cuneate.