488 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



fisherman who sends me anything he gets that he thinks 

 worth having. This species has occurred not infrequently 

 on this coast (Kent). It is probably worth recording the 

 circumstance of its having the beautiful roseate colour 

 of the under-parts, which I should hardly have expected 

 in mid- winter." 



In 1898 Captain Boyd Alexander records that "on 

 March 3, near Horsemonden, a fine adult male Larus 

 minuhis was obtained. Horsemonden is about 12 miles, 

 as the Crow flies, from the Eiver Bother." 



BONAPAETE'S GULL. 



Lams Philadelphia (Ord). Guthrie's Georgr., 

 2nd Amer. Ed., ii., p. 319 (1815). 



Mr. G. Dowker, in his Birds of East Kent, says : 

 " This interesting addition to our Fauna, I have on the 

 authority of Lord Chfton, of Dumpton, Thanet, Kent, 

 who writes : ' There can be no reasonable doubt as to 

 Bonaparte's Gull. A notice of this bird appears in the 

 Field, April 4, 1888.' It is not mentioned in Harting's 

 Handbook, 1901." 



Genus STERCORARIUS, Brisson. 



GEEAT SKUA. 



Sfercorarius catarrhactes (Linnaeus). S.N., i., 

 p. 226 (1766). 



The Eev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, writing in 1844, states 

 that Dr. F. Plomley says : " I seldom ride along the coast 

 without seeing one or two specimens. They are the 

 most difficult of all Gulls to kill." 



