CUNEATE-T AILED GULL.
RHODOSTETHIA ROSEA (Macg.).
Larus roseus, Macgillivray, Mem. Wern. Soc. v. p. 219
(1824).
Rliodostcthia rossii, Macg. v. p. 618.
Larus rossii, Naum. xiii. pt. 2, p. 270.
Rliodostcthia rosea, Yarr. cd. 4>, iii. p. 597; Dresser, viii.
p. 313.
It is perhaps superfluous to state that I am totally
unacquainted personally with this very rare Arctic bird,
whose claim to a place in the British list rests upon a
single occurrence, of which I transcribe the details from
the fourth edition of ' Yarrell's British Birds,' vol. iii.
p. 580, as supplied to the ' Zoologist' by Mr. Henry
Milner, who states that the Lesser Gull was killed by
Horner, Lord Howden's head keeper, in February, 1847,
in a ploughed field, near the hamlet of Milton-cum-
Kirby, in the parish of Kirby. Its flight resembled,
according to Horner's account, the flight of any other
Gull, and it did not seem at all shy. Some doubt appears
to attach to the above account, but, as Mr. Howard
Saunders writes, " inasmuch as this Arctic species has
undoubtedly wandered in winter to Heligoland and the