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LIST OF NORFOLK BIRDS. 
207. Sabine’s Gull {Xema sabinii). 
Two young Sabine’s Gulls, male and female, the only known 
Norfolk specimens, were shot on Breydon Broad, in October, 1881 
(Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. iii. p. 373), one of 
which passed into the collection of Mr. Stevenson, and the other 
into that of Mr. Connop. 
208. Little Gull [Larus mmutus). 
An accidental ^visitant, and prior to 1870 a very rare one. 
In February of that year a tremendous gale from the east blew a 
whole flock to the east coast of England. Mr. Stevenson considers 
that over sixty were killed in Norfolk (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich 
Nat. Soc. 1870-1, p. 08), the majority of these were in adult 
plumage, others in diflerent stages of immaturity. In the breeding 
plumage it has never occurred. 
209. Mediterranean Black-headed Gull {Larus mdanoce- 
phalus). 
On the 26th December, 1886, an adult male of this southern 
species was killed on Breydon, and came into the possession of 
Mr. George -Smith, of Great Yarmouth, where it was seen in 
the flesh both by Mr. Gurney and myself. On the 18th January, 
1887, Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited the skin at a Meeting 
of the Zoological Society of London. — S. 
210. Black-headed Gull {Larus ridibuudus). 
This is the only Gull which nests in Norfolk j there is a large 
colony at Scoulton,"*^' another at Hoveton. Of late years the birds 
at the latter Gullery have been very unsettled, and small parties 
have set up detached breeding places in various other localities, 
none of which, I believe, have been permanent. — S. 
211. Common Gull {Larus canus). 
Common, especiallj^ on the coast in autumn, 1161011 ive regularly 
see a constant succession of Gulls of different kinds flying against 
the wind. All birds fly against wind by preference, but in none is 
* There are three heautiful plates h}- Keulemaiis of Scoulton Mere and its 
Gulls in the second volume of Rowley’s ‘ Ornithological ISIiscellauy,’ p. 407, 
and an e.xcellent description of the same Gullery hy Mr. Stevenson in the 
Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. 1871-2, p. 22. 
