The Glaucous Gull (Lams glaucus) at Portland, Maine. —An 
instance of this Gull’s occurrence in the vicinity of Portland is at last fur¬ 
nished by the capture of a specimen at Peake’s Island, April 27, 1883. I 
examined the bird in the shop of Mr. John Fleming of Portland, to whom 
it was sent for preservation.— Nathan Clifford Brown, Portland , Me. 
Bull N, 0.0, 8, July. X88S. p. / #6 . 
Crobby tells me that he saw recently at a Portland taxerder- 
mist s shop(I think it was at Daniels*) a Gull which he could not 
p !ace. tie thinks it is Sabine^ or . He says it had 
a black breast.--(Letter of Manly Hardy, Jan. 30, 1890) 
Mr. A.S. Dorr, taxerdermist, of Bucksport,(18 miles below her£ 
writes that he shot a gull which he sent to 
who identified it a.:; Glaucuot , He also wrote a descriptin 
oi one he had since seen close to him, which he could not identify. 
This without much doubt was an Glaucuo .which 
makes it probable that the one sent to G & F was a young 
(Letter of Manly Hardy, Jan/ 30, 1890) 
