4794 - THE ZooLocisT—FEBRUARY, 1876. 
Addendum to a Note on Rare Sea Birds (Zool. S. 8S. 1295),—T see 
the first note which I had the honour to send you—and which has been 
followed by a goodly array of others—appears in the volume for 1868, and 
records without any particulars the following list of rare birds :—little 
gull (two), Iceland gull, glaucous gull (five), greater shearwater, fulmar 
petrel, spotted redshank (two), little auk (three), great skua and ringed 
guillemot. As such brief notes are of no practical use I have taken the 
trouble to hunt up the following details:— 
The little gulls were shot on the 12th of August and 24th of October, 
1867, at Flamborough Head. The former retains just one or two of the 
dark lesser wing-coyerts and four brown-tipped feathers in the tail. 
The Iceland gull was shot in Orkney on the 26th of October, and having 
been packed up to go a long journey immediately after it was killed, it was 
almost unfit for preserving. 
The glaucous gulls were—(1) an adult from the Orkneys; (2) a specimen 
in what has been described as the general dirty-white plumage intermediate 
between the old and young, from Plymouth; (3) an immature specimen 
picked up by my father in Leadenhall, where it was hanging on the 9th of 
December with another, both being said to have come from Yarmouth; 
(4) two other immature ones from Yorkshire, shot respectively on the 14th 
of December, 1867, and the 24th of January, 1868. From Filey, on the 
same coast, I received another on the 26th of October following. 
The greater shearwater, like all the British ones which I have seen, was 
the Puffinus major of Faber, to be easily distinguished from the cinereous 
shearwater by its small black beak. This bird, which was an adult female, 
fell in an exhausted state upon the deck of a trawler off Plymouth, was 
taken alive to a birdstuffer named Rogers, and sent to me by Mr. Gatcombe. 
I noticed that its legs were “ pied” as in the Manx shearwater. 
The fulmar petrel was a female, a young bird, and darker than any 
which I got afterwards. It was also caught alive at Plymouth on the 
24th of October, 1867, and brought to the same birdstuffer as the shear- 
water. 
The spotted redshanks came from Leadenhall, and the little auk from 
the coast of Yorkshire. 
The gray phalarope was shot on the Tees somewhere below Stockton by 
a Mr. Pennrick Lyth, on the 10th of November, 1867. One of the pomarine 
skuas was shot at the same place. 
The great or common skua and the “ringed guillemot” were shot at 
Flamborough Head on the Ist and 24th of March.—J. H. Gurney, jun. 
Rare Birds in Lincolnshire.—I have received the following rare birds 
during the past month:—Blackthroated diver (male), Sclavonian grebes 
(male and female), rednecked grebe (male), and peregrine falcon (male).— 
Alfred C. Elliott ; 29, High Street, Stamford. 
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