Sabine’s gull. 
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in Peru Tt in swarms as far south as Callao Bay, 
Of FranV.T^^ r recorded from Novaya Zemlya 
it is verv’ Land, and, according to Mr. Howard Saunders, 
nierelv ^ooal in Spitsbergen, while it is believed to be 
n visitor to Jan Mayen. 
2quIhi?anL'‘w?hT^^^^^ 
Saint MichaelX June Jof We“^ excursion near 
tide at the mouth of the ‘ canal ’ cn caught by a head- 
fort and tied up to the bank' to await 
soon after midnight, and taking mygun 
the marshes in the soft twilioht ^ f>tiolIed off across 
hoarse cries of distant Tonne: ^ ii ‘■'me only the 
broke the silence 4 'T, n 1 °'' ^ ’'oP'ng note of a Crane 
extreme; not a li,'- whole scene was desolate in the 
fragments of drift 3 ^"t? bleaching 
all that the wSe exSn 'of 1 numberless ponds 
r-30 a.m. the sV,, i ^ ^ presented. About 
Swans, mellowed bv'^tlTe^ brighter, and the rich tones of the 
came from the hrae^r lallc^' f barmonious cadence, 
the marsh from time o tl^ "i.? ? mhabitants of 
In a few minutes a the chorus, 
seen passing over the noiwlo* .mgglmg tram of small Gulls was 
them, they were found procession. Approaching 
small fishes and various snnfi engaged in feeding on the 
motions and appearance '*■* ‘bese pools. Their 
^uli, when seen at those of Bonaparte's 
water like the latter, as the X plunged into the 
gracefully close over thrJ;r'‘^" have the habit of hovering 
alighting for an instant L P’^^^ up a morsel, or of 
wing so lightly that scarcelv again on the 
f en or a dozen beautiful sne • ^Pm is made on the surface, 
as the birds flew about TL*™*^ c^ ®bot without difficulty 
consists of sticklebacks at throughout the season 
and crustaceans as occur m • f mainly of such small larvae 
to a close, young and old f ^^.^bislr ponds. As August draws 
and for tile rest of the tetof ' the matshes to a gteat extent, 
l»»lins at the wate, "„To“hIrachS^ 
