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individual, I am enabled to add the recent colour of the bill, legs, &c., which in the 
immature bird has not been described. Under the name of Lams minutus, which 
that gentleman considered it to be, he remarked ; — “ irides dark ; bill dark ; legs 
pale flesh-colour ; weight 5-| oz.”] 
“ In tlie museum of the Royal Dublin Society, I lately observed, 
without having any label attached to it, a second specimen of 
Larus Sabini. Upon inquiry from Mr. Wall, the very obliging 
curator (who treasured the bird as a rarity, though he had not 
ascertained its species,) I learned that it had been shot by himself 
in Dublin Bay, near Kingstown, a few years before, but he 
could not recollect at what season. The stage of plumage, how- 
ever, affords sufficient evidence of its having been killed in 
autumn, as it is a bird of the first year, and similar in appearance 
to the specimen in the Belfast Museum. 
“ The occurrence of only two individuals of this species within 
the eastern hemisphere, has hitherto been recorded, both of which 
were obtained by Captain Sabine at Spitzbergen.” — Read before 
Linnean Society , April 5, 1834, and published in full in Mag. 
Zool. and Bot. 3 vol. i. pp. 460, 462. 
“ A third specimen of the Larus Sabini occurred last autumn 
in Ireland. It was shot on or about September 15, 1834, on the 
shore of Belfast Bay, near Claremont, the residence of Mrs. 
Clewlow, in whose possession it now is.* It is a young bird of 
the year, and in plumage similar to the other two individuals of 
this species, which I had the satisfaction of announcing to the 
Linnean Society, last year, as having been obtained in Ireland ”f 
“ The dimensions of this bird, taken in the same manner, and 
compared with those of the individual above described, exhibit 
but one difference at all worthy of notice ; its first quill being 
longer than the second, though the second slightly exceeds the 
first, in the latter specimen/” — -Mag. Zool. and Rot. vol. i. 
p. 464. 
“ I have to record the occurrence of a fourth L. Sabini in 
* Subsequently bequeathed, as part of that lady’s collection of natural history, to 
the Belfast Museum. 
f Proceedings of Zoological Society of London, 1885, p. 83. 
