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Xenia sabinei. 
Secured a specimen rom this rare Gull from Mr. 
Diamond of Brookline, who shot the bird in Boston Har— 
‘ bor September 1874. It was sitting on a mass 
of floating seaweed and vra,s very tamo, inasmuch as the 
sailing party .passed within a Tevr rods of it before it 
was discovered. It v/as holding a small crab-apple in it 
bill. When shot at and wing-broken it made its way off 
along the surface vrith such speed that it was v/ith diffi¬ 
culty secured. 
