31£ laridjE. 



individual, I am enabled to add the recent colour of the bill, legs, &c., which in the 

 immature bird has not been described. Under the name of Lariis minutus, which 

 that gentleman considered it to be, he remarked ; — " irides dark ; bill dai'k ; legs 

 pale flesh-colour; weight S^oz."] 



" In the museum of the Royal Dublin Society, I lately observed, 

 without having any label attached to it, a second specimen of 

 Larus Sahini. Upon inquiry from Mr. Wall, the very obliging 

 curator (who treasured the bird as a rarity, though he had not 

 ascertained its species,) I learned that it had been shot by liimself 

 in Dublin Bay, near Kingstown, a few years before, but he 

 could not recollect at what season. The stage of plumage, how- 

 ever, affords sufficient evidence of its having been killed in 

 autumn, as it is a bird of the first year, and siuiilar in appearance 

 to the specimen in the Belfast Museum. 



" The occurrence of only two individuals of this species within 

 the eastern hemisphere, has hitherto been recorded, both of which 

 were obtained by Captain Sabine at Spitzbergen." — Read before 

 Linnean Society, April 5, 1834, and puhlisJied in full in Mag. 

 Zool. and Bot., vol. i. pp. 460, 462. 



" A third specimen of the Larus Sahhii occurred last autumn 

 in Ireland. It was shot on or about September 15, 1834, on the 

 shore of Belfast Bay, near Claremont, the residence of Mrs. 

 Clewlow, in whose possession it now is."^ It is a young bird of 

 the year, and in plumage similar to the other two individuals of 

 this species, which I had the satisfaction of announcing to the 

 Linnean Society, last year, as having been obtained in Ireland.^'f 

 " The dimensions of this bird, taken in the same manner, and 

 compared with those of the individual above described, exhibit 

 but one difference at all worthy of notice ; its first quill being 

 longer than the second, though the second shghtly exceeds the 

 first, in the latter specimen."' — Mag. Zool. and Bot. vol. i. 

 p. 464. 



" I have to record the occurrence of a fourth L. Sahini in 



* Subsequently bequeathed, as part of that lady's collection of natural histoiy, to 

 the BeKast Museum. 



t Proceedings of Zoological Society of Loudon, 18;55, p. 83. 



