i io THE BIRDS OF DORSET. 



and Old Harry. It does not breed on our coast, nor 

 does it breed in the Isle of Wight (see The Zoologist, 

 1 86 1, p. 7648). It occasionally comes inland in large 

 flocks during very stormy weather, though never re- 

 maining long, as the Herring Gull does. A consider- 

 able number were observed on Charlton Down on 

 December i, 1886, after a hurricane. One was shot 

 on Whatcombe Down in March 1871 ; another on 

 Kingston Down in the spring of 1873 ; a third, in the 

 possession of Mr. Pope, postmaster at Milborne St. 

 Andrew's, was shot on the lake at Milton Abbey in 

 the autumn of 1885, after having been there for 

 several days. 



IYOEY GULL. Pagopliila eburnea, (Phipps). 



Yarrell, iii p. 656; Dresser, viii. p. 349; Ibis List, p. 186; 

 Larus eburneus, Harting, p. 174; Seebohm, iii. p. 337. 



An extremely rare winter visitant. One was shot 

 off Preston beach, Weymouth, in 1843, an d another 

 at Lodmoor, in the winter of 1850. In 1857, one 

 which appeared with a flock of Herring Gulls in 

 Portland Koads was shot by Mr. H. Groves, and 

 another was killed in Weymouth Bay in Nov. 1860. 

 In 1884 one which had been caught in a trap on 

 the Fleet, Abbotsbury, was presented to the County 

 Museum by the Rev. C. Torkington. A specimen 

 in Mr. Pike's collection purchased at a sale in Stud- 

 land out of a collection of local birds, is believed to 

 have been shot in that neighbourhood. 



