Plate CCLXXXII. Adult and Young.
Bill stout, gamboge-yellow, with a spot of orange-red near the end of
the lower mandible; angle of the mouth and edges of eyelids
orange-red; feet pale flesh-colour; wings more than two inches longer
than the tail; plumage pure white, excepting the back and upper
surface of the wings, which are light greyish-blue; the tips of the
secondaries, the terminal third of the primaries, and the upper
tail-coverts, also white. Young in second plumage with the bill
yellow, tipped with black, the feet yellowish flesh-colour; plumage
yellowish-grey, marked on the head and neck with longitudinal streaks
of pale brown, on the back and wings with transverse undulations,
those on the tail much fainter; the first six quills destitute of
markings.
_Adult_, 26, 50.
During winter from New York to Nova Scotia. Not rare. Breeds on the
islands and peninsulas of the Arctic Seas.
Larus leucopterus, Bonap. Syn. p. 361.
Larus leucopterus, White-winged Silvery Gull, Swains. & Rich.
F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 418.
White-winged Silvery Gull, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 305.
White-winged Silvery Gull, Larus leucopterus, Aud. Orn. Biog.
v. iii. p. 553.