Sabine('s) gull

[< Sir Edward Sabine, Brit. explorer, d. 1883]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small Arctic gull, Xema sabinii, having a forked tail, gray head, and black collar.

Quotations

1852

Sabine and ivory gulls, and other birds, such as ducks, brent geese, &c., were on their flight up the Channel.

1958

Few people have the opportunity to see Sabine's Gulls as they rarely come south even in the winter.