344 BIRDS OF NOEFOLK. 



This species is not mentioned by either Sheppard 

 and Whitear or the Pagets, but Hunt in his list records 

 " a fine specimen killed at Yarmouth," and adds, " Mr. 

 Norman, of Docking, has another, killed in his neigh- 

 bourhood." Mr. Lubbock, in his copy of Bewick's 

 birds, has a note written in July, 1831, of one shot 

 off Yarmouth by a fisherman, but the date of the 

 occurrence is not given. Mr. Dowell states that in 

 November, 1847, during a gale from the north, he 

 killed a "cream-coloured gull," which he sent to the 

 late Mr. Yarrell, who pronounced it to be a glaucous 

 gull, and adds, " these gulls visit us [at Blakeney] 

 during the winter, and then only during gales from the 

 north or north-east. At such times, however, several 

 may be seen in a day; they are easily distinguished 

 from the young black-backs by the primaries being 

 light, and the whole bird of a cream colour at a 

 little distance, whence their name here of ' cream- 

 coloured gull ; ' being much tamer than other gulls 

 they are much more easily procured. None of these 

 birds appeared at Blakeney during the winter of 

 1848-9, but on November 23rd, 1849, I saw and shot 

 an immature glaucous gull at Salthouse ; and, in 

 December of the same year, Overfcon sent me one 

 out of which Ellis took a whole golden plover. In 

 January, 1862, an immature specimen was killed at 

 Sheringham." A glaucous gull, in the late Mr. Eising's 

 collection, was killed on November 18th, 1847, the same 

 year as Mr. Dowell's first specimen. A fine young male, 

 in the Dennis collection, was killed at Yarmouth in 

 1848. In the "Zoologist" for 1850, p. 2778, Mr. 

 Gurney has a note of the capture of four of these birds 

 off Cromer, in the month of February of that year, two 

 of which were adults. Mr. J. 0. Harper records ( u Na- 

 turalist," ii., p. 132) the occurrence of a fine adult male, 

 at Yarmouth, on 29th November, 1851 ; and Mr. Ste- 

 venson mentions one killed at Yarmouth in February, 

 1859 ; and a second at the same place in January, 1862. 

 Since that time I have many other records, but shall 

 only mention the adults, which form a very small pro- 

 portion of the whole. Late in October, 1880, a fully adult 

 specimen was killed at Mundesley (not at Knapton, 



