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SABINE'S GULL. 



PLATE CCXXI. 



Larm Sabini, 

 " Sabinei, 

 JL~</;W Sabini, ETTON. GOTTLD. 



THIS bird lays its eggs on the bare earth. 



They are two or three in number, olive brown in their ground 

 colour, numerously spotted with darker brown. They are of a regular 

 shape, and not much pointed. 



The parent birds, when engaged with 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. 



The figure on the plate is from an egg forwarded by J. R. De Capel 

 , Esq., of Lincoln College, Oxford. 



