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Larus leucopMhalmus, Licht., is stated by Von der Miihle (Beitr. Orn. Griechenl. p. 145) 

 to occur in spring on the coasts of Greece, but this statement lacks confirmation. This Gull 

 inhabits the Red Sea. 



Daption capensis (Linn.). — One is said, according to Mr. A. G. More (Ibis, 1882, p. 346), to 

 have been shot near Dublin on the 20th October, 1881, and, according to Degland and Gerbe, 

 three examples have been obtained off the French coasts; but as it belongs to a non-European 

 genus, and inhabits the southern seas, I do not think it advisable to include it. 



(Estrelata brevipes (Peale). — A single specimen of this West Pacific species was 

 obtained between Borth and Aberystwith in the winter of 1889 (Zool. 1890, p. 454), and was 

 figured by Mr. Salvin (Ibis, 1891, p. 411, pi. ix.), this being the only record of its occurrence 

 in Europe. 



Prion ariel, Gould. — A specimen in the Gould collection, now in the British Museum, is 

 stated to have been obtained at Madeira, but there is no other record of its having been obtained 

 within the limits of the Western Palsearctic area. It is an inhabitant of the southern seas. 



Phaethon cethereus, Linn. — Leigh in 1700 includes the Tropic-bird in his 'Natural History 

 of Lancashire,' and, according to Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., one, picked up dead at Cradley, near 

 Malvern, was in the collection of Mr. Walcot, and was sold with that collection about 1867, 

 and has since been lost sight of. Naumann (Naumannia, 1851, p. 16) remarks that it is said to 

 have been twice seen off Heligoland ; and, according to Degland and Gerbe, the Tropic-bird has 

 been once observed on the coast of Norway, but this statement lacks confirmation. 



Diomedea exulans, Linn. — According to Briinnich, one was killed on the coast of Norway, the 

 head and feet of which are preserved in the Copenhagen Museum. Degland and Gerbe state 

 that one was killed near Dieppe, and the head and feet taken to Mr. Hardy, in whose collection 

 they were seen by them. According to Boie (Isis, 1835, p. 259) one was killed near Antwerp 

 in 1833, and three were, according to Degland and Gerbe, said to have been obtained near 

 Chaumont in November 1758. 



Diomedea melanophrys. — A single bird which had frequented the island of Myggenses, Fseroe 

 Islands, for the last thirty-four years, consorting with the Gannets, was shot in May 1894 and 

 sent to the Copenhagen Museum. In the Arbuthnot Museum, Peterhead, there is one which 

 was killed June 15th, 1878, in lat. 80° 11' N., long. 4° E., north-west of Spitsbergen. 



Thalassogeron culminatus (Gould). — A single example of this Albatross was caught on the 

 ice on Fiskumvand in the parish of Ekers, Norway (Nyt Mag. f. Naturv. i. p. 256), and sent by 

 Professor Boeck to the University Museum, and recorded as Diomedea chlororhynchos, Temm. 

 Prof. Collett does not include either this species or Diomedea exulans as belonging to the 

 avifauna of Norway, but merely mentions them in a footnote. Nor do I consider it advisable 

 to include any of the three species as European, as they are certainly non-Palsearctic. 



Tachypetes aquilus (Linn.). — One is stated by Bechstein (Vog. Deutschl. iv. p. 775) to have 

 been obtained on the Weser in the winter of 1792. 



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