2488 The Zoologist — February, 1871. 



were reported to me as extremely shy, but ou the 11th iustant they were 

 both shot wheu swimming uear each other : they were adult birds, aud the 

 gizzard of one of them that I examined contained very coarse flinty gravel, 

 one or two pieces being almost as large as a horse-bean, and some fine dead 

 grass, like tow, tightly matted together. — F. Boyes; Jan. 23, 1871. 



Rare Gulls^ &c., at Bridlington. — On the 15th of December I received 

 an immature male of the Iceland gull, which was shot at Bridlington by 

 M. Walkington. On the 19th I shot a male glaucous gull, aud on the 

 20th a female, both immature : I have seen a fine adult specimen of this 

 bird, which was shot on the 2Tth, by H. Machin, Bridlington, and I have 

 heard of one being captured at Flamborough. We have had great numbers 

 of wild ducks in the Bay during the late severe weather, amongst which 

 I could recognise the mallard, scaup, goldeneye, pochard and scoter ; there 

 have also been a number of goosandere, some few of which have been shot, 

 but they are all either females or young birds. — T. Boynton. 



Iceland dull in Somersetshire. — On the 28th of December I received, 

 from ^Veston-8uper-Mare, a very good specimen of the Iceland gull, which 

 had been shot at that place on the 24th, whilst marauding about the sprat- 

 nets. It was a bird in second year's plumage. Judging from the change of 

 plumage in the herring gull, it must be about eighteen months old, as 

 many of the pale gray feathers were making their appearance on the back, 

 and taking the place of the pale brown, more mottled feathers of the young 

 bird. — Cecil Smith; Lydenrd House, Taunton, January 6, 187). 



Iceland Gull in East Yorkshire. — On the 20th of December last Mr. 

 Richardson, taxidermist of this town, received in the flesh, for preservation, 

 an immature male of the above gull. It had been shot in the neighbourhood 

 of Bridlington, and apparently only a day or two before. This is decidedly 

 a rare bird on this coast, and, like the glaucous, occui-s almost e.Kclusively 

 in the immature stale, and which Ijird it also greatly resembles in plumage. 

 1 have no record of an adult bird having been captured in East Yorkshire. 

 — F. Boyes. 



Glaucous Gulls in East Yorkshire. — A grand old male of the glaucous 

 gull was shot at Bridlington on or about the Cth of January. I had the 

 pleasui'e of examining it in the flesh, and a noble example of the Laridje 

 it looks, with its pure white breast and pale blue back. It measui'ed 2 feet 

 4 inches in length and 5 feet 3 inches in expanse of wings ; head spotted 

 and streaked with ash-gray, similar to the common gull in winter ; back and 

 wing-coverts pale bluish gray ; irides light orange ; upper ridge of beak 

 yellow ; inferior angle of lower mandible orange-yellow, the rest white horn- 

 colour; legs and feet pale flesh-colour. This is the first really mature bird 

 that I have known to be procured on this coast. It has passed into the 

 collection of Sir Henry Boynton, Bart., of Burton Agnes. — Id. 



