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(Zool. 1863, p. 8448). Mr. Gatcombe records a 

 fourth, killed in Plymouth Sound, in the autumn 

 of 1866 (Zool. 1867. p. 557). A Sabine's Gull 

 killed in Torbay, was sold as lot 150 at Mr. Cecil 

 Smith's sale at Steven's, London, on June 

 24th, 1890. 



LITTLE GVLL.—Larus minutus, Pall. 



A RARE visitant from autumn to early spring, 

 chiefly observed on our Southern estuaries in the 

 winter months. Baron A. von Hiigel records 

 specimens killed in Torbay. Mr. Cecil Smith shot 

 one off Teignmouth in 1866 (Zool. 1867. p. 562). 

 Others have been obtained at Plymouth, and 

 Torquay ; it has been recorded repeatedly on the 

 Exe, an adult and three immature birds being shot 

 on that river in the winter of 1876-77 (Zool. 1877. 

 p. 105). In the North of Devon it is naturally 

 rarer, but two were shot on the sands near Braunton 

 Burrows in August, 1858, and another was picked 

 up dead at Braunton in January, 1869 (Zool. 1858. 

 p. 6245. 1869. p. 1803). Gatcombe remarks of a 

 female Little Gull, shot in Plymouth Sound, 

 February 3rd, 1862, that although immature and 

 retaining a black band on the tail, "the black head 

 of the breeding season was already partially 

 assumed" (Zool. 1862. p. 7940). 



