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niunts of (irpoiilatid, and as brcciliiif,' only to tin' iiortli of Upernavik. I'rofcssdr 

 Itlasiii.s also tlfscrilM-s it as occuniiiK' i» Ilcli^oland. According' to Middundorlf, 

 Sabine's (iull is a bird of Silicria; and it is incliulfd in liis list of those that piMictratu 

 to tlu! farthest north. He also states ("Sii). I{eise," p. 244) that this (Jull aitpeared uii 

 the Taimyr Uiver (lat. 73" 4r>' \.) on the oth of .Fune ; bnt soon left, and was not seen 

 a>?ain until he reaehed the jtonds in the barrens (fumli'mt) and the small alluvial 

 islands in the river and lake of Taimyr, in about 74" north latitude; there it was 

 common, breedin<i; in company with the Aretie Tern. The same writer, (pioted liy 

 Dresser, states that he found this bird breeding in Northern SilM'ria, and that on tlio 

 loth of July the e^'^s were niueh incubated. They were deiM>sitcd in dejjressions in 

 the moss, lined with dry },'rass-lH'nts of the jirevious year, and there were two in each 

 nest. On the I'Jth of iluly most of tlie youny birds seen had only just been hatched 

 out; but a few were of considerable size. On the 15th of Aufjiist he saw full-),M(i\vn, 

 thou},'h not f>dl-feathered, young. They dived with ease, while the parents were 

 flying' overhead — every now and then darting down, uttering a harsh note somewhat 

 resendding that of Tin-this jiI/iwIk. lie found the crops «d' the old birds and the 

 stomachs of the young iillcd with the larva' of diptennis in.seets. 



Kichardson, in his " .louriuil of a Hoat-voyage," refers to an islan<l off Cape Dul- 

 ]iousie, on whiidi he encam|ied, as being one of the breeding-places of this bird, and 

 states that the eggs were deposited in hollows in the short and mossy turf. 



Mr. (iiraud mcntio'.is that a single individual of this sjteeies was shot at Itaynor 

 StMith, on Long Island, in duly. 1X.'>7, and states that, so far as he was aware, this 

 was the only one ever procured on the island. 



Mr. d. A. Allen obtained a single specimen of Sabine's (Jull at Salt Lake Valley 

 in Scptendier, and one is said also to h;ive Ix-en taken in liernuida — shot by Colonel 

 Drummond near St. (Jeorge ; but in this ea.se there was no record of the date. 



According to Varrell. there are .sev»'ral instances on record (»f the shooting of this 

 Gull in the Ibitish Islands. The lirst specimen, so far as known, was shot in Helfast 

 Uay in Septcndier. ISl'L'; the second, imw in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Soci- 

 ety, was shot in Dublin Itay by Mr. AVall. Itoth oi these birds were in the idunia;.,'c 

 of the first autumn. Other s)iecimens have since Iteen (ditained in Candiridgeshire, 

 at .Miliord Haven, at Newhavcn, near Dultlin, and in several other jdaces. Temminck 

 mentions three instanees of the occurrence of this species which had iK'come known 

 to him — one was a young bird on the coast of H(dland; a .second was killed on the 

 Khine ; a third in France, not far from Konen ; and still another near Dunkirk. 



Captain .Macl'arlanc found this (lull breeding in the islands of the Arctic Ocean. 

 He mentions that the under ]dumage of a male shot by him early in July was deeply 

 tinged with crimson. The first nest found was by itself on an island near a small 

 lake, and contained three eggs. In .hiiie. lS(»r», Mr. MacFarlane found a nundtcr of 

 these birds breeding on the "large ishinil" in Franklin Itay — a place often refernil 

 to in his notes as such, which, however, w.is a.scertaim-d not to Ije an island, but iin 

 extensive neck or ])oint of land. The nests were on an islet in a small lake. 



Mr. Dall mentions finding the Fork-tailed (iull ainindant in the marshes about 

 ra.st(dik and St. Michael's, where it breeds. He al.so states that this species is not 

 rare at I'lover I5ay. in Eastern Siberia. Mr. Dall hits never cdiscrved it far iulaml, 

 in strictly fresh water, and is certain that it is not found at Nnlato. 



Mr. Hannister states that in the early l)art of July he observed large flocks of these 

 birds in the Canal at St. Michael's, and that at about the sanu! time two sjtecinicns 

 were shot by .Mr. Fease in the .same hcality. They did not (d»serve this species iit 

 any other point near the redoubt. lUit .Mr. K. Adams mentions ("Ibis," 1878) having 



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