626 The Zoologist — December, 18(56. 



Ibe day previous to that on which it was shot. The peculiarity of its flight attracted 

 his altention. This species breeds in England and Ireland, but has never been known 

 to do so in Scotland : although it has been observed in Berwickshire, Forfarshire and 

 Banffshire, I am not aware of its having been previously procured in Aberdeenshire. — 

 W. Craike Angus ; 130, Union Street, Aberdeen, October 23, 186(). 



Occurrence of Sabine's Gull in Dublin Bay.— On ihe 28th of September Mr. 

 Walter Atkin, of Dalkey, shot — almost in company with a gray phalarope— an 

 example of this arctic gull. It is a young bird, in first plumage, and similar to the 

 one shot by me in 1861 (Zool. 8093). This makes the fourth one known to have 

 occurred in Dublin Bay, and the sixth in Ireland — all in the same stage of plumage. 

 The following description was taken from the bird in the flesh : — Forehead, space 

 before eye and a little above eye white ; a spot immediately before eye and on the eye- 

 lid black; head smoky lead-colour; fringes pale brown ; neck, back and shoulders the 

 same, but that the feaihers of the back and shoulders liave a blackish bar before the 

 fringe, which varies from wood-brown to whitish. The scapulars or tertial coverts 

 and the tertials themselves are of the same character, but have a creamy light after 

 the dark band. Tail-coverts, throat and all under parts white; tail white, deeply 

 banded with black. Marginal wing-coverts take after the neck. Lesser secondary 

 coverts, some of the elbow-quills and their coverts as the tertials. Greater coverts of 

 secondaries lead-colonr; dtep, white tips; towards the carpus the vvliite increases and 

 runs through the whole, giving iliem a white clouded with gray appearance. Primary 

 coverts next carpus black and while; rest black. Primary quills: first five centre 

 filaments and shafts black; inner filaments black, broadly banded with whitish gray to 

 an inch or so of the tip, distance increasing downwards, extreme end dull white; 

 sixth, tip white, lesser filament black, about half an inch from tip there is a while spot 

 to the fringe, but not to the shaft; the greater filament whitish, about an inch fium tip 

 along the shaft is clouded with black — as I stated in my former account (Zool. 8093) 

 this quill varies; seventh, end half while, rest of lesser filament smoke-colour, rest of 

 greater filament smoke-colour tinged with white, shaft white ; eighth white, tinged 

 about its centre with gray ; the rest and the secondaries white. Bill thick for its 

 length, gull-shaped and dusky. Feet flesh-colour. Expanse two feet seven inches; 

 carpal joint to end of quill-point ten inches and a quarter ; carpal to elbow three inches 

 and three-quarters ; length to end of outer tail-quill one foot one inch ; depth of fork 

 in tail one inch ; bill along top three-quarters of an inch ; bill along gape one inch and 

 one-twelfih; tarsus one inch and a quarter; middle toe one inch; nail one and a half 

 twelfths of au inch. Very little was observed of the habits of ihe bird, except that it 

 showed no fear of man or fire-arms: it was shot swimming, after many shots had been 

 fired at the phalarope. — Harry Blake-Knox ; Dalkoj, Count]/ Dublin, October 8, 1866. 



Little Gull at Bridlington Quay. — I was fortunate enough lo shoot a siiccimen of 

 the little gidl {Larus minutus), at Bridlington Quay, on the 9th of August — G. D. 

 Armitage ; Milns Bridge House, Huddersfield, Yorkuhire. — From the 'Field' News- 

 paper. 



Shearwater at Epping. — A specimen of the shearwater {Puffinus Anglorum), in 

 beautiful plumage, was picked up dead in a garden in this town, on ihe 21st of 

 September; it was very fat. — Henry Doubleday ; Epping, October 15, 1806. 



Rare Birds near Kingsbridye. — Some rare birds have occurred in this immediate 

 neighbourhood: in September, 1865, 1 shot on our estuary a white specimcu of the 



