SABINE’S GULL. 
sabine’s xeme. 
Larus Sabini, 
“ Subivci, 
Xema Subini, 
Jenyns. Yarrell. 
Temminck. 
Leach. Eyton. Gocld. 
Larus —............ ? 
Sabini— Sabine’s, or of Sabine. 
This neat and graceful bird was first discovered as a new- 
one by Captain Edward Sabine, of the Royal Artillery, who 
accompanied the expedition of 1818, in search of a north-west 
passage: they were noticed July 18th. on the coast of Greenland; 
one subsequently in Prince Regent’s Inlet, and afterwards many 
on Melville Peninsula; also in Felix Harbour, Behring’s Straits, 
Cape Garry, and Igloolik; as also off Newfoundland, and at 
Halifax, in Nova Scotia. In Europe one on the coast of 
Holland, one on the Rhine, and one in France, near Rouen. 
They belong to Spitzbergen. 
A specimen of this Gull was shot at Newhaven, in Sussex, 
in December, 1853. In Cambridgeshire one, and one at 
Milford Haven, in the autumn of 1839. 
It is also an Irish species, the first recorded British example 
having been shot in the Bay of Belfast, in September, 1822; 
a second occurred in Dublin Bay; and a third in October, 1837; 
which fell to the gun of H. H. Dombrain, Esq. 
They feed on marine insects, which they stand and watch 
and search for by the water’s edge. 
If the nesting-places of these Gulls be approached, they 
dash with impetuosity at and about an intruder, in the 
endeavour to scare or lure him away. Most birds, as has 
already been so often shewn in the present work, resort to 
every expedient for this object, if not in the way of attack, 
in that of concealment;—a harmless ‘suppressio veri,’ which if 
