larus atricilla Linnaeus: Laughing Gull.
"Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula"
Erwin E. Klaas
The larus Glaucus, the great bird of prey in the Polar regions.
"The Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.P."
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Perhaps it was the rare larus Sabinii, of which a drawing has been given above.
"The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II"
A.E. Nordenskieold