. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARIDJE. 6S7. t^^E SABINE'S GULL. X^MA SABfNii (Joseph Sabine). This small fork-tailed Gull is one of the species which were first recognized in the United Kingdom by Thompson, who de- scribed an immature example shot in Belfast Bay in September 1822. Since that date more than a dozen specimens have been taken in Ireland; while many others are on record from various counties of England and Wales, with a few from Scotland. All of them have occurred from August to December, and, with the exception of six in summer-plumage obtained or observed, res
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARIDJE. 6S7. t^^E SABINE'S GULL. X^MA SABfNii (Joseph Sabine). This small fork-tailed Gull is one of the species which were first recognized in the United Kingdom by Thompson, who de- scribed an immature example shot in Belfast Bay in September 1822. Since that date more than a dozen specimens have been taken in Ireland; while many others are on record from various counties of England and Wales, with a few from Scotland. All of them have occurred from August to December, and, with the exception of six in summer-plumage obtained or observed, respec- tively, in Yorkshire, the Island of Miill, Kent, Hants, Cornwall, and on the coast of East Lothian, they have proved to be young birds. This almost circumpolar species was not noticed in Norway before October 1886, nor until 1892 in Holland, but it has long been known as a visitor to the islands and shores of the North Sea and the north of France, while stragglers have reached Switzerland and even Austro-Hungary. It was discovered on the Expedition of 1818 in search of a North-west passage, by the late Sir Edward Sabine, who found it nesting in lat. 75° 29' on the west side of Green- land ; and it is now known to breed throughout the Arctic regions of America, from Baffin Bay to Alaska. Thence it can be traced across the high latitudes of Eastern Siberia as far as the Taimyr Peninsula, where Middendorff obtained its eggs. It has not yet been recorded from Novaya Zemlya or Franz Josef Land; but 3 E. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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