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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Little gull. Larus minutus Pallas. Long Island specimen in American Museiim o£ Natural History, i nat. size 



about September 15, 1887. It was taken by Robert Powell and presented 

 by John Wallace to the American Museum [see Dutcher, Auk, 5:172]. 

 The second specimen is a young female collected on Rockaway Beach, 

 May loth, 1902, by Robert L. Peavey, and presented to the Brooklyn Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences [see Braislin, Auk, 20:52]. 



Xema sabini (Sabine) 

 Sabine Gull 



Plate 6 



Larus sabinii J.Sabine. Lin. Soc. Trans. 1818. 12:520, pi. 29 

 DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 312, fig. 281 

 Xema sabinii A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 62 



xe'ma, meaning unknown; sd'bini, in honor of E. Sabine 



Distinctive marks. This gull in any plumage may be recognized by 



its forked tail. The peculiar wing pattern and the black border around the 



