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large ponds and flooded tracts of low land in the 

 interior. 



Green Cormorant, Phalacrocorax graculus. 

 Of very unusual occurrence. I have seen one 

 or two examples — immature — which were killed 

 at Pagham Harbour during the hard winter of 

 1838-39. 



Gannet, Sula alba. After the severe storms 

 which attend the autumnal equinox, some of these 

 birds are almost always captured on the coast of 

 Sussex in an exhausted state. Individuals have 

 been thus found near Pagham, Selsey, Shoreham, 

 Newhaven, and Peve-nsey. The Brighton fisher- 

 men find them abundant in mid-channel during 

 the herring-season. At night they sleep on the 

 water, so profoundly as frequently to allov/ the 

 boats to pass over them. 



Family Larid^. 



Sandwich Tern, Sterna Boysii. Has been 

 obtained at Pevensey, Selsey, and Rye, in May 

 and June, as well as during tlie autumnal 

 months. 



[In May, 1853, a Sandwich tern was shot off 

 Brighton by Mr. Michau of Clarence Square. — 

 3rd edition.] 



Co^iMON Tern or Sea Swallow, Sterna 



