he was shown the specimen, said by Graham, a bird-stuffer
of York, to have been shot near Tadcaster, and with the
permission of its then owner, and of Mr. (later Sir Win.
M. E.) Milner, of Nun Appleton, who afterwards purchased
it, he sent it for the Author’s inspection. .Sir" W. Milner’s
version, presumably derived from Graham,. i§ that the- bird
was killed on the 22nd December, 1846, by a Mr. Saxton,
of Aberford (Zool. p. 1694); but the following details
were supplied by Mr. Henry Milner (Zool. p. 1784)'
“ Ross’s Gull was killed by Horner, Hord Howden’s head-
keeper, in February, 1847, '"kf a ploughed field, near the
hamlet of Milford-cum-Kirby, in the parish of Kirby|& Its
flight resembled, according to Horner’s account, the light
of any other Gull, and it did not; seem at all shy.’V Jfhis
specimen, which is in winter plumage, and is now ia~Jhe
Leeds Museum, has, in 435 e opinion of several persons who
have examined it, dhe appearance of having been mounted
from a relaxed skin and not from>{ the flesh * thé dates
assigned are, however,.g-consistent with - the?f¥bsence 'of
the black collar; and as one- straggler- of!“thi#~ Species has
occurred in the Faeroes, and another ^Heligoland; there&s
no inherent improbability} of its - having been'" obtained fin
Yorkshire. Macgillivray had - already included*" thisf bird in
his Manual of British Ornithology, voh ii. p; -fM '(184f),
with the remark‘that “ this spébies has- once occurred fin
Ireland,” but' of.this^thei%.fÉ%o cof f oboratiVp'evfdSbpe'**
The two first examples of this rare Arctic Gull Mere
obtained on the 23rd and 27th diame*, 1823, on Parry’s second
¥oyagé, at Alagnaki>3^fel5iltè;;iPeninSüla,; 69° 8ü4N? Tat.^lnd
the species Vas named by Richardson after i ï j -discoverer,
Mr., afterwards Sir Ross; b u ïim th ê matter of
nomenclature he had been anticipated by Mabgffiiw'ay. iflhe
of these specimens is lk th e Edinburgh Miseum; thk other,
Which ivas given to the late Mr. J. Sabine,‘ is probablydle
one which is now in the-Derby Museum- at -Lweispool.
* A Mb -J. B. El] maim has stated thatHah;4dult male-was shot'and-Jïeèerited
-to Wm by bis friend Mr. Tidier of Pevensey, and'this-baré \ assertion, unacöompanied'by
any details, was inserted in * The ZSolbgistp'p.
The species was also observed at Felix Harbour, Boothia.
Ross, - rin 1 his Zoological Appendix to Sir Edward Parry’s
tfarrativé of his-‘adventurous boat-voyage- towards .the Pole,
relates that several were seen during the journey over the
ice-north of Spitsbergen, and that Lieutenant Forster also
found the species in Waygatz&(#.e. Hinlopen) Strait—not to
be Confounded with.Wadgatz Island-to the. south of Novaya
Zemlya—-butspecimens were not obtained. Professor Malm-
gren, :who-did not meet with itf*at Spitsbergen, has expressed
his doubts as to dhe correctness ©f’fhe identification, but upon
this- point itha '-testimony of Ross and Parry, who certainly
knew this Gull better than anyinan then living, is clear. In
Parry’s Narrative’^(ffrte81) thé- words are, “ We saw in the
course of this journey > [13th/ July,r'1827, lat. 82P-4Fv N*}
©ne ôf’.-the very beautiful - gulls 'first. discovered!:*bÿ Lieut;
Ross at Arlagnuk [||p]':in our-voyage-of 1823, and named -in
compliment to him Larus On 16th July, lat. 82-Q 26A
N., “ We saw during’ the last journey, a second; Rossu^Ul’t
(p.^87^fj. and-again;-on their return/August 2nd, in 82° 6'
N. lat’i/LJ9; 451Edongind-“ We* saw five or six birds, amongst
otheris two «Rcæs. gulls, during this- journey^^ps lljQ);. It
'is impossible^!» ‘throw-over -such evidence merely because
later victors to Spitsbergen have ^not observed the; specjbs ;
and the;correctnfiSSy>f these. distinguished Arctic explorers is
confirmed by the fact that -the Austro-Hungarian expedition
'■©bbained.' a specimen -i©ff< thenewly-discovered Franz-Josef
.Land, although- kn-vds lost- 'Whenj/tbe“; * Tegetthoff"’ was
abandoned/ Nordenskiold’.sy.expedition obtained;^ bird of
the j$ second - -year: on the^d^t'/Jmlyr-18:79.,- just Jbefore the
- ‘ Wgà *> was freëd from fieri winter quarters. off the Chukch
Peninsula; and Mr. Newcomb; pf the ill-fated ‘'Jeannette,’
shot mo dess-than-eight-spécimens off Norj&peastern Siberia,
after the middle of:Octeber;i Three. ofdh.e^{togp|b§r
^with àdbird in the spotted .-plumage lofi the ■ finsfi year, shot .in
Dctober. nearKSt./Pïcba*€d’s, Alaska,,by Mr. E. Nelson,,are
ko win the Smithsonian Institution at Washington ^Qjruise
'loff-tHe f Corwin’ p. I08|I ■ • Copenhagen Mu‘S.eum?jthpre
; -aare three fremx Disco Bay/tGinepiand ; a fourth' from, the