172 THE BIRDS OF OXFORDSHIRE. 



bvit it is much less common than the other Gulls already 

 mentioned. An example, in immature dress, was shot by Mr. 

 George Jackson, then of Greenlands, near Henley, in that 

 neig-libourhood, on the 31st December, 1849 (A. H. Cocks hi 

 lit.), and a very fine adult specimen, captured at Stanton 

 Harcourt on the 12th August, 1882, is preserved in Mr. 

 Arnatt's collection. I Lave examined but one of these 

 magnificent Gulls procured in the north of the county, an 

 immature bird, which was shot in the Cherwell valley, two or 

 three miles below Banbury, about the year 1866. 



THE ICELAND GULL. 



Lams leucopterus. 



The Iceland Gull has occurred in Oxfordshire in one 

 instance, viz. in the spring of 1836, when a specimen, in the 

 plumage of the first year, was shot on Port Meadow. This 

 specimen was in the Messrs. JNIatthews^ collection. (Zoohfj/isf, 

 p. 2625.) 



THE KITTIWAKE. \ ^ i 



Eissa tyidadyla. 



The Kittiwake is an occasional, and not uncommon, visitor, 

 from autumn to spring, perhaps occurring- in winter more often 

 than at other seasons. In spring I have known it shot here as 

 late as the 24th ]March. 



THE POMATORHINE SKUA. 



Sfercoi'ariiis 2>oniaioihiiius. 



The Pomatorhine Skua is an accidental wanderer from the 

 coast. The Messrs. Matthews record two specimens, in 

 immature dress, procured in the vicinity of Oxford ; one in 

 February, 1834, the other in November, 1848. The first was 

 then in the collection of the late Mr. H. E. Strickland. 

 {Zoologist, p. 2625.) 



