( ll'll ) 



~':5. [AUe alle (L.) 



The Pouta Delgada Mnseum contains : 



a — e. From diflferent jiaits of the shores of San Miguel. 



An adult specimen of the Little Auk captured at Ponta Delgada was j)rescnted 

 to the British Museum. 



Jlajor Chaves informs us that it occasionally visits tlie archijielago, and is then 

 fairly common.] 



~4. [Fratercula arctica (L.j 



The Ponta Delgada Museum contains : 



a. ? imm., Ponta Delgada, San Miguel (in winter ]ilumage). 

 The above is the only instance df the iicrnrrence of this sjiecies.] 



2.">. Sterna fluviatilis Xaum. 



Breeding-colony of Strriia Jinriat'iliii on the rocks off Caes do Tico. 



? ad., Taldeira, below Pico Cabaco, Flores, 2iiimi ft., IC. iv. 1903. 



[The Ponta Delgada Museum contains : 

 a — c. Ponta Delgada, San Miguel. 



The Common Tern, according to Major Chaves, is a common species in the 

 Azores. 



Numbers were seen on the rocks at the landing-place at t'orvo, and it was 

 common about the coasts at Flores, where a few pairs also frequented the lakes 

 about the middle of the island. We found a large colony breeding on the rocks 

 opposite San Antonio, a village on the north coast of Pico, and it was a lovely 

 sight to see hundreds of these birds wheeling and circling rounil their nests, which 

 were situated on the ''stacks,"' only about thirty yards from the shore. Large 

 numbers were breeding on the Cabras or Goat Islands off Terceira, and likewise 

 on Villa Islet, oif Santa Maria : but in the latter jilace all the eggs had been taken 



