LARUS MINUTUS. ola 
Sterna macrura. On the 10th of July the eggs were hard set. They were 
laid in pairs in a depression on the moor lined with the grass-stalks of former 
years. Good big young birds were observed on the 17th, and on the 15th of 
August full-crown, though hardly feathered, birds. The species was only seen 
on the flat alluvial shores. In his work (ut supra, tab. xxiv. fig. 5, and tab. xxv. 
fig. 1) he figured a young bird and an egg. I exhibited this specimen at a 
meeting of the Zoological Society, 10th December, 1861 (ué supra); but its 
shattered condition forbade me from having it figured. ] 
[§ 4513. Zhree. 
Franklin Bay, Arctic Coast of America, 1865. 
[§ 4514. Two. - From the Smithsonian Institution, through 
Professor Baird, 1869-1875. 
[§ 4515. Two. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, pl. iv. fig. 5, p. 57. 
These are fron Mr. MacFarlane’s spoils. The labels sent with them shew 
that from the first two nests the hen bird was procured, and from each of the 
three I have lent a specimen to Mr. Oswin Lee to draw, while from the first a 
specimen was exhibited by me at a meeting of the Zoological Society, 
17 January, 1871, and subsequently figured (wt supra). Mr. MacFarlane writes 
of this species (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 419) that “Quite a large number 
of nests were found on the shores of Franklin Bay, and a few eggs were also 
received from the Esquimaux of Liverpool Bay. Several specimens of this 
beautiful gull were shot at the former point.”’] 
LARUS MINUTUS, Pallas. 
LITTLE GULL. 
[§ 4516. One—— Government of Perm,” Russia. From M. 
Hardy, 1859. 
During a visit I paid to this well-known collector at Dieppe on the 2nd of 
June, 1859, I was kindly received by him, and he gave me this egg as well as 
one attributed to LZ. melunocephalus which had been sent to him by a corre- 
spondent, and assured me he could trust them. In the latter I have no 
confidence; but this may be right, for he had some ten or eleven eggs, together 
with skins of LZ. minutus in fine breeding-plumage, which he said came with 
them. I was quite unable to see any ditference between these eges and a 
series of Terns’. | ; 
