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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Little 
  gull. 
  Lartis 
  minutus 
  Pallas. 
  Long 
  Island 
  specimen 
  in 
  American 
  Museiim 
  ol 
  Natural 
  History. 
  J 
  nat. 
  size 
  

  

  about 
  September 
  15, 
  1887. 
  It 
  was 
  taken 
  by 
  Robert 
  Powell 
  and 
  presented 
  

   by 
  John 
  Wallace 
  to 
  the 
  American 
  Museuin 
  [see 
  Dutcher, 
  Auk, 
  5:172]. 
  

   The 
  second 
  specimen 
  is 
  a 
  young 
  female 
  collected 
  on 
  Rockaway 
  Beach, 
  

   May 
  loth, 
  1902, 
  b}^ 
  Robert 
  L. 
  Peavey, 
  and 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Brooklyn 
  Institute 
  

   of 
  Arts 
  and 
  Sciences 
  [see 
  Braislin, 
  Auk, 
  20:52]. 
  

  

  Xema 
  sabini 
  (Sabine) 
  

   Sabine 
  Gull 
  

  

  Plate 
  6 
  

  

  Larus 
  sabinii 
  J.Sabine. 
  Lin. 
  Soc. 
  Trans. 
  1818. 
  12:520, 
  pi. 
  29 
  

  

  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  312, 
  fig. 
  281 
  

   Xema 
  sabinii 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  62 
  

  

  xe'ma, 
  meaning 
  unknown; 
  sd'bini, 
  in 
  honor 
  of 
  E. 
  Sabine 
  

  

  Distinctive 
  marks. 
  This 
  gull 
  in 
  any 
  plumage 
  may 
  be 
  recognized 
  by 
  

   its 
  forked 
  tail. 
  The 
  peculiar 
  wing 
  pattern 
  and 
  the 
  black 
  border 
  around 
  the 
  

  

  