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coast on April 9th, " rather a late date for that 

 species in this locality." Immature specimens are 

 recorded from Plymouth, Exmouth, Teignmouth, 

 and Torbay, of which last locality Baron A. von 

 Hiigel remarks ; " Young birds are rare, but 

 regular winter visitants to this coast " (Zool. 1874. 

 p. 3908). Glaucous Gulls are voracious feeders, and 

 a bird, which Gatcombe himself shot, disgorged a 

 short junk of (longer eel, almost as large round as 

 his arm. The stomach of another contained 

 partially digested fish bones. 



ICELAND GULL. — Larus leiicopierus , Faber. 



An occasional winter visitant, more rare on the 

 Devon Coasts than the Glaucous Gull. The Rev. 

 W. S. Hore records an Iceland Gull shotinTorbay, 

 in 1844. A specimen shot on the Laira by the 

 Rev. R. A. Julian, January 30th, 1855, induced 

 Mr. Gatcombe to remark, '' This species is far less 

 frequent with us than Larus glaucus ; indeed the 

 only other one I know of, obtained in this locality, 

 is in the collection of Dr. Moore, of Plymouth, where 

 it has been for many years '' (Zool. 1855, p. 4705.). 

 Mr. Gatcombe records an immature bird shot at 

 Plymouth, November 22nd, 1861, and another 

 young bird, killed on the 21st of the following 

 April. Mr. Reading chronicles another killed in 

 December, 1862, at Plymouth. The late Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney reported " a nearly adult specimen shot 



