O / 4 THE BIRDS OF DEVOX. 



April 30th, 1875; Jan. 6th and 14th, 1877; an adult seen March 29th, 1879; an 

 immature bird April 9tli, 1881 (J. G., MS. Ivotes ; Zool. 1872, p. 3051 : 1873, p. 3445; 

 1875, pp. 4371, 4491 ; 1876, p. 4798 ; 1877, p. 163 ; 1879, p. 2u8; 1882, p. 63 ; J. J. 

 R., Zool. 1863, p. 8448). 



Only one specimen has occurred in the Kingsbridge estuary (H. N.). 



Thi.s Gull was met with in Torbay in the winter ot 1854; 1867-8 ; Jan. 1869 ; and 

 on Feb. 8th, 1871 : two of the specimens obtained being aduhs (Zool. lb(:9, p. 184(i ; 

 1871, p. 2631; 1874, p. 3908). Tbe Iceland Gull recorded in the ' Zooh.gist' lor 

 1868, as killed in Torbaj, was a Glaucous Gull in adult plumage (J. H. G., Zool. 1871, 

 p. 2631). 



An immature bird occurred on the Teign in Jan. 1877 (Zool. 1877, p. 108). 



On the Exe estuary it is rare; Mr. Edss and Dr. W. E. Scott had specimens, and 

 one was killed at E.xmouth, Jan. 3rd, 1872, and an immature bird near Topsham, Jan. 

 20th, 1877 (Zool. 1877, p. 108). We saw one at Exmouth in Jan. 1889. 



One was killed at Budleigh Salterton in the winter of 1847 (W. B. S., Zool. 1849, 

 p. 2.".85) and one at Beer, March 17th, 18S3. 



The Glaucous Gull is, apparently, very rarely seen on the Dorsetshire 

 coast, as Mr. Mansel-Plcydell can enumerate only three examples. In 

 Corn-svall, according to Dr. BuUmore, it is occasionally seen in Falmouth 

 Harbour, and Mr. Eodd had a splendid example in his fine collection which 

 was shot in Mount's Bay early in April 1872; and two were shot at 

 Hooe as receiitly as December lb91. The Glaucous Gull breeds commouly 

 ill Greenland, and its fine eggs are well known to collectors. 



Iceland Gull. Lams leuco])tcrus, Faber. 

 [Lesser "White-winged Gull.] 



A casual winter visitor, occurring occasionally on the south coast of the 

 county from October to February, sometimes lingering to April and May. 

 The specimens obtained arc most frequently immature. It appears to 

 have become since 1855 a more frequent visitor to FlYmouth Sound, where 

 l)efore that year one in Dr. E. Moore's collection was the only example 

 known to have been procured. 



The Iceland Gull is a smaller edition of the Glaucous Gull, which it 

 closely resembles in plumage, and is also an inhabitant of the far north, 

 coming very rarely to our southern waters, where it is a much less 

 frequent visitor than its larger ally. We have never known an instance 

 of its occurrence in Xorth Devon. On the bays and sounds on the south 

 coast of the county it has been noticed occasionally, and in the winter of 

 1874—75 was numerous. Mr. J. Gatcombe supplied the following note 

 respecting its occurrence that winter in the neighbourhood of Plymouth to 

 Mr. Dresser : — " Owing to the long-continued gales, I suppose, last winter 

 produced more of this species on the coasts of Devon and Cornwall than 

 were remembered ever to have appeared before — numerous specimens, both 

 of young and adidt, having been seen and obtained on the coasts and in 

 our harbours. A specimen or two of the immature might be occa.sioually 

 seen on the coast, but the adult very rarely. There seems to be a regular 

 gradation in size between this species and Larus glcnicus, as 1 have been 



