198 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



256. LARUS SABINI (Leach) . Sabine's Gull. 



A fine female, in the second winter's plumage, of 

 this rare Arctic Gull, now in Sir H. Boynton's col- 

 lection, was shot in Bridlington Bay in the first week 

 of September 1867. 



Mr. Boulton received this bird in the flesh, and 

 states (Zoologist, 1867, p. 544) that the inside of the 

 mouth was brilliant orange-red, irides dark blackish 

 brown, legs and feet blackish grey on the outer sur- 

 faces, leaden grey or dusky on their inner surface, 

 also on the webs. 



On the 10th of August, 1872, a Sabine's Gull, said 

 to be in full summer plumage, was shot from a flock 

 of Terns in Bridlington Bay (Zool. 1872, p. 3316). 



257. LARUS MINUTUS, Pallas. Little Gull. 



This, the smallest of our Gulls, has frequently 

 occurred in the last ten years on the east coast in the 

 latter part of the year. 



In the autumn of 1868 Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., 

 received no less than thirteen in the flesh, all shot in 

 the neighbourhood of Elamborough. The same year, 

 on the 13th of July, he also obtained an adult female 

 in full breeding-plumage from the same locality *. 



* Mr. Gurney says this Little Gull was shot by Mr. Bailey, 

 of Flamborough, along with four Kittiwakes, beating for 

 food at the time at sea, two miles south of the Head. The 

 legs were brilliant red; iris dark brown; bill deepest blood- 

 red, almost black j mouth dull red j breadth of web 1| inch ; 



