SABINE'S GULL 



PLATE CCXX. FIGURE II. 



Larus sabinii, ..... JENYNS. 



Xema sabinii, ..... EYTON. GOULD. 



THIS scarce autumnal straggler to England lays its eggs 

 on the bare earth, or in a depression in the moss, near 

 the coasts of the Arctic seas. 



The eggs are two in number, olive brown in their ground 

 colour, numerously spotted with darker brown. 



The parent birds, when engaged in feeding their young, 

 exhibit much anxiety for them, and dash about intruders in 

 a perturbed manner. 



The young are hatched in the latter end of July. 



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