io6 THE BIRDS OF DORSET. 



appeared in Poole harbour in October 1883 after 

 a severe gale (E. Hart). 



LESSEE TERN. Sterna minuta, L. 



Yarrell, iii. p-558; Harting, p. 76; Dresser, viii. p 279; 

 Seebohm, iii. p. 289; Ibis List, p. 181; Pulteneys List, 

 p. 18. 



A regular summer visitant, frequently met with 

 on the coast. Breakwater Point, at the mouth of 

 Poole, is a favourite resort of this species, but it does 

 not breed there. Mr. Thompson knew of several which 

 had been shot in the neighbourhood of Weymouth 

 in the months of May, July, and October. It breeds 

 on the Chesil Bank, at Langton Herring, and 

 Abbotsbury with the Common Tern. One in my 

 collection was shot in Kimmeridge Bay ; another in 

 Poole harbour in the spring of 1873. 



LITTLE GULL. Larus minutus, Pallas. 



Yarrell, iii. p. 589; Ilarting, p. 76; Dresser, viii. p. 373; 

 Seehohm, iii. p. 301 ; Ibis List, p. 191. 



The Little Gull is rather a rare winter visitant. 

 Its native home seems to be the southern parts of 

 Russia and Siberia and the shores of the Caspian. 

 A specimen in Viscount Portman's collection was 

 shot at Bryanston, September 21, 181 8; two were 

 killed at Weymouth in 1847; one (a male) Decem- 

 ber 22, 1 86 1, and one March 22, 1862; Mr. Pike 

 obtained two in Studland Bay in 1872, one adult, 

 the other immature. 



