164 THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 



and reared by the crew, and for many years lived 

 quite tame in the possession of a smith at 

 Dartmouth. It swam in the river every day, and 

 looked out for the fishermen returning from sea, 

 who used to throw small fish to it " (Yarrell. B.B. 

 vol. III. p. 634. 4th ed.) 



GLAUCOUS GULL. — Larus glaums, Fabricius. 



A RARE winter visitant, but immature birds occur 

 on the South Coast of Devon nearly every year. 

 Adults are always very rare. The only adult that 

 Dr. Moore met with, was killed while feeding on 

 some carrion in a field at Mutley, near Plymouth, 

 about a mile and a half from the sea. This bird 

 was obtained on the exceptional date of May 21st, 

 in the year 1832 (Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837. p. 363). 

 Baron A. von. Hiigel records another adult, killed 

 off Torquay, in the winter of 1854, and preserved 

 in the Torquay Museum. Gatcombe never 

 examined an adult Glaucous Gull in the flesh 

 until 1873, when a bird was killed in Plymouth 

 Sound on the 1st of January. In the winter 1867-8, 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney received from Plymouth a 

 Glaucous Gull, " a specimen in what has been 

 termed the dirty-white plumage intermediate 

 between the old and young " (Zool. 1876. p. 4798.) 

 In 1879, Gatcombe saw a Glaucous Gull, "apparently 

 an adult bird," flying in Plymouth Sound on March 

 29th. In 1881, he saw an immature bird on the 



