Annual report . rivershunting its food like the Herring gull. It is far less wary than that species. Larus minutus Pallas Little Gull Larus minutus Pallas. Reisen Russ. Reichs. 1771. Apx. 35. 3:702 A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. [] niinutus, Lat., very small Distinctive marks. The very small size of this gull, the smallest ofits race, will distinguish it. The mature bird has a black head, pale mantle,lake-red bill, vermilion feet, and no black on the primaries. The youngare extensively dark brown above; the primaries brownish black in thecenter, edged and tipped with white; tail has
Annual report . rivershunting its food like the Herring gull. It is far less wary than that species. Larus minutus Pallas Little Gull Larus minutus Pallas. Reisen Russ. Reichs. 1771. Apx. 35. 3:702 A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. [] niinutus, Lat., very small Distinctive marks. The very small size of this gull, the smallest ofits race, will distinguish it. The mature bird has a black head, pale mantle,lake-red bill, vermilion feet, and no black on the primaries. The youngare extensively dark brown above; the primaries brownish black in thecenter, edged and tipped with white; tail has a broad black band. Length inches; wing ; tail 4; bill .9-1; tarsus i; middletoe and claw i. This old world species is very rare in North America. Besides thedoubtful record by Swainson and Richardson, and one from the Bermudas,there are only two specimens from this country, both taken on Long Island;the first an immature specimen shot at Fire Island, Suffolk co., N. Y., 136 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM. Little gull. Lartis minutus Pallas. Long Island specimen in American Museiim ol Natural History. J nat. size about September 15, 1887. It was taken by Robert Powell and presentedby John Wallace to the American Museuin [see Dutcher, Auk, 5:172].The second specimen is a young female collected on Rockaway Beach,May loth, 1902, b}^ Robert L. Peavey, and presented to the Brooklyn Instituteof Arts and Sciences [see Braislin, Auk, 20:52]. Xema sabini (Sabine)Sabine Gull Plate 6 Larus sabinii Lin. Soc. Trans. 1818. 12:520, pi. 29 DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 312, fig. 281Xema sabinii A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 62 xema, meaning unknown; sdbini, in honor of E. Sabine Distinctive marks. This gull in any plumage may be recognized byits forked tail. The peculiar wing pattern and the black border around the BIRDS OF NEW YORK I37 bottom of the hood are well shown by the figure on plate 6. Immaturebirds have no hood or collar; upper parts slaty gray waved and
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