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LARIDiE. 
east coast of Ireland.” — Jardine and Selby’s Illust. Ornithol., 
No. YI. 1839. 
This brings down the various communications which I made on 
Sabine's gull until December 1838, since which period (now 
August 1850) no further information has been acquired respect- 
ing it as a visitant to the coast of Ireland. 
Subsequently, this species has been noticed on the English and 
continental coasts. In the 3rd vol. of Yarrell's f British Birds 9 
one of these birds is mentioned as having been killed at Milford 
Haven in the autumn of 1839, and a second is stated to have 
been obtained in Cambridgeshire. These two only were noticed in 
Great Britain down to 1845, the date of publication of the 2nd 
edition of that work. Temminck, in the 4th part of his f Manuel/ 
published in 1840 (p. 489), notes a Larus Sabini having been pro- 
cured near Bouen ; one (a young bird) on the coast of Holland ; 
and one on the Bliine. M. Degland, writing in 1849, adds 
another continental specimen, killed at Dunkirk in 1847.* 
This bird, in full adult black-headed plumage, was first met 
with and killed by Captain Sabine, B.A., in July 1818, on low 
rocky islands off the west coast of Greenland. It was described 
and named after him by his brother, Joseph Sabine, Esq., in the 
12th vol. of the Linnean Transactions.! 
* ‘ Ornith. Europ.’ vol. ii. p. 332. 
•J* Ross’s Gull, Larus Rossii, Rich., is stated by Professor Macgillivray to have 
“ once occurred in Ireland” ( c Man. Brit. Birds,’ vol. ii. p. 254) ; but no authority is 
given for the statement. I wrote to that gentleman on the subject, but he 
could not recollect the source of his information. The species cannot, therefore, 
have a place in the present work, though it is not improbable that it may be added 
to the Irish catalogue at a future period. 
The first individual of Ross’s Gull authentically recorded as British was killed by 
Lord Howden’s gamekeeper in Eebruary 1847, in a ploughed field in the parish of 
Kirby, near Tadcaster. Its occurrence was noticed by Mr. Charlesworth in the 
Proceedings of the Yorkshire Philos. Soc., and copied at length in the c Zoologist,’ 
vol. v. p. 1782. 
