LITTLE GULL— SABINE'S GULL. 337 
shot at Emsworth in December, 1868, one of which, an 
adult, is in the Chichester Museum ; and Mr. Pearce has 
recorded a specimen obtained in Langstone Harbour in 
1875. Another was shot near Bournemouth on January 
1st, 1889, by Mr. A. P. Frogatt, who recorded the fact in 
the " Field." 
Mr. Hart's specimens from the neighbourhood of Christ- 
church are dated January ist, 1872 ; December 4th, 1881 ; 
December, 1888 ; and January, 1894. 
An immature example in the Winchester College 
Museum was obtained on Southampton Water on the 
26th January, 1894. 
Mr. Willett records a splendid adult specimen, showing 
the pink breast, which killed itself against St. Catherine's 
Lighthouse in a fog on April 23rd, 1894, ^"^^ iri the follow- 
ing winter Dr. Cowper ^ mentions one seen for many days 
in succession feeding off Shanklin Pier with a large flock 
of other gulls. 
Among other occurrences of this species, of which the 
exact date is lost, are — one shot at Freshwater, many years 
ago, and included in Bond's collection ; and one at Brown- 
down, near Gosport, about the year 1883. (Stares.) 
Genus — Xema. 
269. Xema sabinii. Sabine's Gull. 
A very rare occasional visitor. 
Mr. R. E. Coles, of Ashley Arnewood, New Milton, has 
an adult specimen, which he shot among some phalaropes 
at Sturt Pond, near Milford, on October 21st, 1891. 
^ "Hants Court Guide." 
