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Barking Creek, on the Thames, and it is not at all unlikely to occur on 
the 8. Devon coast. 
Little Gull (p. 385). 
Mr. E. A. S. Elliot shot a young bird at Kingsbridge, the first obtained 
there, November 13th, 1893. One occurred at Dawlish April 9th, 1592. 
This should have been in adult plumage? (A.S. Morres, in ‘ Exeter Gazette,’ 
April 22nd, 1892.) 
[ Observation: —See page 387, line 9. In 4th edition of Yarrell’s 
‘British Birds,’ vol. iii. p. 606, Mr. Howard Saunders conclusively proves 
that, from his own description of the bird, the Gull procured by Colonel 
Montagu from Winchelsea could not have been the American Laughing 
Gull. ] 
Sabine’s Gull (p. 387). 
Mr. E. A. S. Elliot was fortunate enough to obtain a second specimen 
of this rare little Gull, in immature plumage, at Bantham, October 18th, 
1893. 
Common Skua (p. 391). 
According to the British Association Report, a Common Skua was seen 
off Minehead on October 16th, 1886; and at the same time twelve 
Pomatorhine Skuas and six Richardson’s Skuas were also noticed. 
Storm-Petrel (p. 401). 
In the ‘ Field’ for February 24th, 1894, it was recorded by Mr, H. S. 
Harland, of Brighton, that a Storm-Petrel had been captured sitting on 
her egg on the Thatcher Rock, in Torbay, and that the bird had been 
forwarded to the Torquay Museum. 
Manx Shearwater (p. 404). 
Early in July 1895 Mr. E, A. 8. Elliot met with hundreds of Manx 
Shearwaters feeding on the shoals of Mackerel ‘ Brit” a few miles out 
in the Channel off the Bolt Tail. They settled on the water around his 
boat like tame Pigeons. 
Greater Shearwater (p. 407). 
Twenty were seen during the day, on September 3rd, 1886, at Bishop 
Rock, south of the Scilly Islands (Brit. Assoc. Report). Two large 
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