344 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



This species is not mentioned by either Sheppard 

 and Whitear or the Pagets, but Hunt in his list records 

 "a fine specimen killed at Yarmouth," and adds, " Mr. 

 Norman, of Docking, has another, killed in his neigh- 

 bourhood." Mr. Lubbock, in his copy of Bewick's 

 birds, has a note written in July, 1831, of one shot 

 off Yarmouth by a fisherman, but the date of the 

 occurrence is not given. Mr. Dowell states that in 

 November, 1847, during a gale from the north, he 

 killed a "cream-coloured gull," which he sent to the 

 late Mr. Yarrell, who pronounced it to be a glaucous 

 gull, and adds, " these gulls visit us [at Blakeney] 

 during the winter, and then only during gales from the 

 north or north-east. At such times, however, several 

 may be seen in a day ; they are easily distinguished 

 from the young black-backs by the primaries being 

 light, and the whole bird of a cream colour at a 

 little distance, whence their name here of 'cream- 

 coloured gull ; ' being much tamer than other gulls 

 they are much more easily procured. None of these 

 birds appeared at Blakeney during the winter of 

 1848-9, but on November 23rd, 1849, I saw and shot 

 an immature glaucous gull at Salthouse ; and, in 

 December of the same year, Overton sent me one 

 out of which Ellis took a whole golden plover. In 

 January, 1862, an immature specimen was killed at 

 Sheringham." A glaucous gull, in the late Mr. Rising's 

 collection, was killed on November 18th, 1847, the same 

 year as Mr. Dowell's first specimen. A fine young male, 

 in the Dennis collection, was killed at Yarmouth in 

 1848. In the "Zoologist" for 1850, p. 2778, Mr. 

 Gurney has a note of the caj)ture of four of these birds 

 off Cromer, in the month of February of that year, two 

 of which were adults. Mr. J. 0. Harper records (" Na- 

 turalist," ii., p. 132) the occurrence of a fine adult male, 

 at Yarmouth, on 29th November, 1851 ; and Mr. Ste- 

 venson mentions one killed at Yarmouth in February, 

 1859 ; and a second at the same place in January, 1862. 

 Since that time I have many other records, but shall 

 only mention the adults, which form a very small pro- 

 portion of the whole. Late in October, 1880, a fully adult 

 specimen was killed at Mundesley (not at Knapton, 



