"An Arctic Sea Gull in Kansas
"A few days ago a sea gull was shot by a hunter near Fiat. Sea gulls are rare birds in this section—in fact so rare that the hunter who brought it down didn't know what it was that he had shot. So he brought it to town and showed it to several who pronounced it a sea gull of a rare species, now almost extinct—the rose or roseate Arctic gull. It attracted much attention by its beauty, its downy breast being of a rare, delicate pink and its wings of a glossy black."
The New York Times, May 20, 1899, based on a feed from the Howard Citizen.