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other Gulls, and is placed on the ground, usually 
in a marshy place. The eggs, two or three in 
number, are olivaceous, or of various shades of 
brown, spotted and patched with umber brown 
and purplish grey, their length averaging two 
inches and a quarter. 
GULL, SABINES. 
LARvUS SABINI, Temm. 
This beautiful speciesof small Gull, which breeds 
along the coasts of the Arctic Sea of America, and 
extends in winter as far southward as New England, 
has in several instances been met with in Britain. 
It also frequents the coasts of the Continent, occa- 
sionally visiting inland lakes, rivers, and marshes. 
Its food consists of fish, alive or dead, or any 
animal matter that is cast ashore by the tidal 
waves. On the west coast of Greenland it is found 
breeding in association with Arctic Terns, the 
nests of both being intermingled. This Gull lays 
two eggs onthe bare ground, an inch and a half 
in length, not much pointed. The colour is olive, 
blotched with brown. 
