Plate CCCXCVI. Adult and Young.
Bill stout, compressed, gamboge yellow, with a carmine patch toward
the end of the lower mandible; iris yellow; feet flesh-coloured;
second quill slightly longer than the first; tail slightly rounded;
head, neck, lower parts, rump, and tail pure white; back and wings
light greyish-blue; the edges of the wing and a large portion of all
the quills toward the end, white. Young when fledged with the bill
yellow, in its terminal third black; feet flesh-coloured; plumage very
pale yellowish-brown, the feathers of the upper parts with a large
dusky spot toward the end, the quills and tail-feathers barred with
the same.
_Adult_, 30; wing, 19-1/2.
Met with in Labrador in summer. Baffin's Bay and Arctic Seas
generally. Not observed within the limits of the United States.
Larus glaucus, Bonap. Syn. p. 361.
Larus glaucus, Burgomaster Gull, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer.
v. ii. p. 416.
Glaucous Gull or Burgomaster, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 306.
Glaucous Gull or Burgomaster, Larus glaucus, Aud. Orn. Biog.
v. v. p. 59.