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LITLE G ULE: 
Case 365. 
This small but beautiful Gull is one of the 
group which assume a black head during the 
summer, and breed on inland waters. It has very 
rarely been taken in Britain in the full breeding 
plumage, in which state it vies with the Roseate 
Tern in beauty. 
The left hand bird on the top of the groyne, 
and the two lower birds, are from the Borrer collec- 
tion. The first mentioned was shot at Eastbourne, 
December 6th, 1860, by Ward, a fisherman there. 
It is in mature winter plumage. That near the left 
hand bottom corner (which is not quite a mature 
bird) was shot off Brighton in February, 1877 ; and 
the third, a very young bird, was shot on the beach 
at Seaford, after a heavy gale trom the east, by the 
Rev. R. H. Dennis, of East Blatchington, October 
16th, 1846, (Birds of Sussea, p. 262). It very rarely 
happens that the species is obtained in Britain inthis, 
its earliest plumage. 
The other two are from the Wilberforce collec- 
tion; one, which is in the usual immature plumage, 
was obtained at Shoreham, Sussex, in 1862; the 
other, in mature winter plumage, stands on the top 
of the groyne about the middle of the case ; it was 
killed close off Brighton in 1870. 
LP BUSEARD: 
Case 366. 
The bird which is stuffed flying, was shot by 
Mr. L. N. Graburn on Wepham Farm at Burpham, 
Sussex, December 16th, 1901. It was originally 
stuffed by a local bird stuffer but soon afterwards 
restuffed by Pratt, though too late to preserve the 
under wing coverts. This bird was acquired by 
purchase. 
The other, an adult female, was shot November 
