342 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT. 
Occasionally at Ince, along the bank of the Mersey [R.N.] 
“Very numerous along the banks of the mouth of the Conway; 
also seen on the shore beneath the Great Orme, on the Conway 
Bay side.” [H.T. ] 
Occasionally inland along the upper Dee [T.R.] 
**T[Sterna macrura. Arctic TERN. 
No doubt this species, as well as the preceding, occurs at the 
mouths of our rivers and along the Welsh coast in autumn. Jam 
unable to say which is more abundant. Of several specimens 
sent me from Anglesea in 1891, the two were about equally 
represented. At the Skerries (Anglesea). the present species 
was by far the more numerous in the breeding season 1893. ] 
** Sterna minuta. Litrie Tern. 
** An autumn visitor to the Dee Marshes.” (Br. p. 16.) 
Common at the mouth of the Dee [A.O.W. ] 
Mr. H.-Ecroyp Situ found it breeding, in company with 
the Ringed Plover, at the Point of Air (Zz. Nat. Jour., August, 
1866, p. 38.) SiR Pyers Mostyn tells me it still breeds there. 
Xema sabinii. Sapine’s Gutt. 
An immature specimen was shot at Mostyn during the last 
week of October, 1884, by Mr. JoHN Witttams. He watched 
it in a field adjoining the shore for some hours before he was 
able to obtain a shot. It was preserved by the late Mr. Wm. 
Tuomeson and added to the private collection of Mr. WALLACE, 
of Chester, who kindly allowed me-to send it for exhibition 
at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London on Feb. 2nd, 
1886. (See Zoologis/, March 1886, p. 118.) 
Larus minutus. LitrLe GuLt. 
Dr. Bett, New Brighton, has a specimen shot off the coast, 
near the New Brighton Fort, on November rst, 1880. 
“Several specimens were shot about 1869, on the Wild 
Marsh, Queensferry.” [W.T., in diary A.O.W.] 
Mr. BygRLEyY mentions “one killed near New Ferry.” 
(Fauna of Liverpool, p. 23.) 
* Larus ridibundus. BLAck-HEADED GULL. 
‘« A few may be seen on the Dee Marshes nearly all the year. 
Some must nest not far off.” (Br. p. 16.) 
This is the commonest Gull seen in our fields in the winter, 
often feeding amongst flocks of Peewits. It regularly visits the 
Roodeye, Chester. Sometimes it becomes very tame; in the 
