LITTLE GULL. 669 



as a Yorkshire species. The most proHfic seasons were 1866, 

 1868, in which latter year Mr. J. H. Gurney had thirteen 

 specimens sent to him ; 1869 ; and I2th-I4th February 1870, 

 when thirty were obtained in Bridlington Bay during a 

 fearful easterly gale, nineteen of them being old birds ; two 

 adults, male and female, were reported at the same place in 

 September 1881. Scarborough ranks next to Flamborough 

 as to numbers noted ; three adult examples were procured 

 in 1870, and about twenty adult and immature have been 

 taken there between 1836 and 1902. Redcar and Teesmouth 

 district can claim fifteen specimens between 1849 and 1902 ; 

 two occurred at Spurn on 26th October 1881 ; one at Withern- 

 sea about 1897 ; an adult example at Skipsea in February 

 1871 ; one at Filey in 1868 ; one in 1863 at Whitby, where 

 several individuals have since occasionally been seen in the 

 harbour ; and one at Runswick Bay in 1890. 



The only inland localities where it has been noted are 

 Skipwith Common, two being shot there on ist September 

 1856 ; and near Ackworth, where a specimen was killed in 

 the winter of 1880-81. 



The Little Gull sometimes associates with Terns when off 

 this coast ; one in immature plumage, which I saw on 9th 

 September 1885, was with a large flock of Sterna macrura ; 

 and Mr. Bailey has also noticed these two species fishing 

 in company off Flamborough Headland. The majority of 

 those obtained are immature, but occasionally old birds in 

 winter plumage are met with, and, as stated above, nineteen 

 were killed in 1870 ; an adult in full summer garb, procured 

 on I2th July 1868, and another taken on 5th August 1886, off 

 Flamborough, are in Mr. Gurney's collection {Zool. 1868, 

 p. 1379 '■> and Nat. 1887, p. 22) ; Mr. Boynton of Bridhngton 

 and Mr. W. Pyman of Whitby also each possess a specimen 

 in similar plumage, which I have examined ; and an adult in 

 winter dress, which occurred in October 1886, is in the York 

 Museum. 



A white variety from Flamborough, on 29th October 

 1889, was in the collection of the late Mr. Marshall of Taunton. 

 It is not an albino, as the terminal bar on the tail is visible, 



