478 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS 



SABINE'S GULL. Xema sabinii (Sabine). Length, 

 13"5 in.; bill, 1*3 in.; wing, 10"25 in.; tarsus, 1'5 in. 



Hah. Enters the circumpolar regions in summer, going 

 southward in winter. 



One, Belfast Bay, Sept. 18, 1822: Thompson, "Nat. Hist. 



Irel. (Birds)," vol. iii. p. 309. 

 One, Belfast Bay, Sept. 15, 1834 : Thompson, op. cit 

 One, Dublin Bay, Sept, 12, 1837 : Thompson, op. cit. 

 One, Milford Haven, autumn 1839 : Yarrell, " Brit. Birds," 

 Two, Torbay, Devon, Oct. 1844 : Hore, Zool, 1845, p, 879. 

 One, Cambridgeshire : Yarrell, op. cit. 

 One, Newhaven, Sussex, Oct, 22, 1853: Borrer, ^ooZ., 1853, 



p. 4408 ; Knox, " Ornithological Rambles in Sussex," 

 One, Brighton, Oct. 16, 1856: Rowley, Field, Jan. 13, 



1877 ; Borrer, " Birds of Sussex," p. 261. 

 One, Hove, Brighton, Oct, 7, 1858 : Dawson Rowley, Zool., 



1859, p. 6331 ; Borrer, op. cit. 

 One, Banffshire coast: Edward, Zool, 1860, p, 6974. 

 One, Balta Sound, Shetland: Saxby, Zool, 1861, p. 7436. 

 One, Dublin Bay, Nov. 1861 : Blake Knox, Zool, 1862, p. 



8093 ; Ussher, " Birds of Ireland," p. 328. 

 One on the Thames, near Blackwall, Sept, 1862 : Harting, 



"Buds of Middlesex," p. 251, 

 One, Weston-super-Mare: Mathew, Zool, 1863, p. 8692, 



and 1865, p. 9470; " Birds of Somerset," p, 580. 

 One, Mounts Bay, Cornwall, Sept. 1866 : Rodd, Zool, 1866, 



p. 501, and " Birds of Cornwall," p, 167. 

 One, Bridlington, Yorkshire, Sept, 5, 1866 : Boulton, Zool, 



1867, p. 543 ; Clarke and Roebuck, " Yorks, Vert.," p. 81. 

 One, Kingstown Harbour, Sept. 28, 1866 : Blake Knox, 



Zool, 1866, p. 526 ; Ussher, " Birds of Ireland," p. 328. 

 One, same place, Sept. 18, 1867 : Blake Knox, Zool, 1868, 



p. 1099 ; Ussher, op. cit. 

 One, Plymouth Sound, autumn 1866 : Gatcombe, Zool, 



1867, p. 557 ; D'Urban and Mathew, p, 387. 



