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One, Wells, Norfolk, Oct. 1892 : Weldon, ZooL, 1892, p. 423. 

 One, Amroth, Pembrokeshire, Nov. 12, 1892: Jeffreys, 



ZooL, 1892, p. 423 ; " Birds of Pembrokeshire," p. 107. 

 One, Rockcliff Marsh, Cumberland, Sept. 30, 1893: Mac- 



phcrson, ZooL, 1893, p. 429. 

 One near Burnham, Somerset, Oct. 11, 1893: Goldsmith, 



ZooL, 1896, p. 234. 

 One, Weymouth, Nov. 1893 : Macpherson, ZooL, 1896, p. 23. 

 One, Wolfe Rock, Cornwall, Sept. 1894: Thorburn, ZooL, 



1896, p. 476. 

 One, Wells, Norfolk, Oct. 1895 : Gurney, ZooL, 1896, p. 177. 

 Six, Aberystwith, Sept. 24-26, 1896: Salter, ZooL, 1896, 



p. 385. 

 One, Tickenham, near Clevedon, Somerset, Sept. 24, 1896. 

 One, Cley, Norfolk, Oct. 12, 1896: Gurney, ZooL, 1897, 



p. 134; Trans. Norf. NaL Soc, vol. v. p. 421. 



Ohs. This Gull, named after Sir Edward Sabine, 

 who found it nesting in lat. 75° 29' on the west side 

 of Greenland, breeds throughout the Arctic regions 

 of America from Baffin Bay to Alaska. Thence, 

 according to Mr. Saunders, it can be traced across 

 the high latitudes of Eastern Siberia as far as the 

 Taimyr Peninsula, where Middendorf obtained its 

 eggs. A fine pair in breeding plumage (with slate- 

 coloured head and black collar) may be seen in the 

 Oxford Museum. They were obtained by Captain 

 Collinson of H.M.S. Enterprise off Melville Penin- 

 sula, Proc. ZooL Soc, 1871, p. 111. As the Gull- 

 billed Tern approaches the Gulls in the form of the 

 bill, so Sabine's Gull approximates to the Terns in 

 regard to its long and forked tail, a feature which 

 distinguishes it at all ages and in any plumage from 

 all other Gulls of its size. It is comparatively a small 



