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of the first three primaries of />. melanocephalus and 

 L. ridibnndtis, both being from birds of the year 

 shot about March, in his paper on the Larince, 

 published in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society' for the year 1878. 



172. LITTLE GULL. Larus mimttus, Pallas. 

 French, " Mouette pygmee." I have never met 

 with this bird myself in the Channel Islands, nor 

 have I seen a Channel Island specimen, but 

 Mr. Harvie Brown, writing to the ' Zoologist' from 

 St. Peter's Port, Guernsey, under date January 

 25th, says, " In the birdstuffer's shop here I saw 

 a Little Gull in the flesh, which had been shot a 

 few days ago."* Mr. Harvie Brown does not give 

 us any more information on the subject, and does 

 not even say whether the bird was a young bird or 

 an adult in winter plumage ; but probably it was 

 a young bird of the year in that sort of young 

 Kittiwake or Tarrock plumage in which it occa- 

 sionally occurs on the south coast of Devon. 



Professor Ansted does not include the Little 

 Gull in his list, and there is no specimen in the 

 Museum. 



173. GREAT SHEARWATER. Pujfinus major, Faber. 

 French, " Puffin majeur."t I think I may fairly 



* See ' Zoologist' for 1869, p. 1560. 



f See Temminck, ' Man. cl'Ornitliologie,' 



