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food, flew low up along the road for about two hundred yards, 

 and then disappeared over the fields. This was a very dark- 

 coloured bird, evidently in its first year. 



1877. — On Sunday, January 28th, as I was walking to church 

 across one of my fields, I saw resting on the grass, among a 

 number of small Gulls, a young Icelander, so very dark in 

 colour that it must have been in its first year's plumage. 



On December 26th, resting on the water with a young 

 Herring Gull, near Killanly Marsh, I saw a young dark bird. 



On December 29th, when walking on the shore below Ennis- 

 crone to Carrahubbock to obtain some Purple Sandpipers for a 

 friend, I observed a young Iceland Gull among some small Gulls 

 in a grass field, but as there was nothing to disturb them, I con- 

 tinued my way to the Sandpipers' haunt, when having obtained 

 the required number of specimens I returned, and when passing 

 the field where the Gulls were resting I saw the Icelander still 

 among them. Intending, if possible, to secure the bird, I was 

 just entering the field when it rose, flying to the shore, and 

 passing close to me ; so, taking my gun, I brought it down with 

 a charge of No. 5 shot. It was a very fine specimen, apparently 

 in its second year. 



1887. — On October 9th I shot the young bird that had been 

 haunting the shore field, following the ploughman for several 

 days, feeding on the grubs and worms. 



1892. — On January 9th I fired at a young Iceland Gull flying 

 past my boat. 



On January 10th I again saw the Gull near the point, but 

 without obtaining a shot. 



On February 3rd, below Enniscrone, on the Carrahubbock 

 shore, I saw an immature bird standing on a flat rock along 

 with several young Herring Gulls. Having no gun with me, I 

 was obliged to content myself by using my glass, by which I 

 easily identified it, by comparing its slight build with the other 

 Gulls, and having a clear view of the ends of the closed wings 

 extending beyond the ends of the tail feathers. 



On February 15th either an Iceland or Glaucous Gull was 

 seen near Rinroc, but too far off to be identified (doubtful). 



1898. — On June 19th, as I was driving to Oghill, and when 

 half-way between that place and Enniscrone, on passing a field 



