314 LARID^. 



east coast of Ireland/^ — Jarcline and Selhifs Illust. Ornithol., 

 No. VI. 1839. 



This brings down the various communications which I made on 

 Sabine's gull until December 1838, since \vhich period (now 

 August 1850) no further information has been acquired respect- 

 ing it as a visitant to the coast of Ireland. 



Subsequently, tliis species has been noticed on the English and 

 continental coasts. In the 3rd vol. of Yarrell's ' British Birds ' 

 one of these birds is mentioned as having been killed at Milford 

 Haven in the autumn of 1839, and a second is stated to have 

 been obtained in Cambridgeshire. These two only Avere noticed in 

 Great Britain down to 1845, the date of publication of the 2nd 

 edition of that work. Temminck, in the 4th part of his ' Manuel,' 

 published in 1840 (p.' 489), notes a Lams Sahini having been pro- 

 cured near Eouen ; one (a young bird) on the coast of HoUand ; 

 and one on the Ehine. M. Degland, writing in 1849, adds 

 another continental specimen, killed at Dunkirk in 1847.^ 



This bird, in full adult black-headed plumage, was first met 

 with and killed by Captain Sabine, R.A., in July 1818, on low 

 rocky islands off the west coast of Greenland. It was described 

 and named after liim by his brother^ Joseph Sabine, Esq., in the 

 12tli vol. of the Linnean Transactions. t 



* • Oriiitli. Europ.' vol. ii. p. 332. 



■)• Ross's Giill, Larus Rossii, Rich., is stated by Professor Macgillivray to have 

 " once occurred in Ireland" ('. Mau. Brit. Birds,' vol. ii. p. 254) ; but no authority is 

 given for the statement. I wrote to that gentleman on the subject, but he 

 coidd not recollect the source of his information. The species cannot, therefore, 

 have a place in the present work, though it is not improbable that it may be added 

 to the Irish catalogue at a future period. 



The fh'st individual of Ross's Gull authentically recorded as British was kUled by 

 Lord Howdeu's gamekeeper in February 1847, in a ploughed field in the parish of 

 Kirby, near Tadcaster. Its occurrence was noticed by Mr. Charlesworth in the 

 Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philos. Soc, and copied at length in the ' Zoologist,' 

 voh V. p. 1782. 



