650 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE, 



noticed annually up to the year 1898, though in smaller 

 numbers. 



The only local name is Frenchman, in use at Bridlington ; 

 though, as remarked above, it was stated by Willughby to have 

 been called Scare Crow. 



WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN. 

 Hydrochelidon leucoptera [ScJiinz). 



Casual visitant from southern Europe, of extremely rare occurrence. 



This species breeds in central and south-east Europf, 

 northern Africa, Abyssinia, and Asia, and in winter is found 

 in eastern Asia and north Australia. 



Yorkshire can claim three examples of this rare and 

 elegant bird : — 



The first was obtained in i860, near Scalby Mills, Scar- 

 borough (Tindall MS.), and formed part of the collection 

 of the late Ed. Tindall, which is now in the Scarborough 

 Philosophical Society's Museum. 



At Flamborough, one, a mature bird, was seen for some 

 days in the spring of 1867, but was not procured (J. Cordeaux, 

 Zool. 1867, p. ion ; " Birds of Humber District," p. 197). 



At Scarborough a specimen was shot on 26th September 

 1896 (W. J. Clarke, Zool. 1896, p. 387).* 



* The example, now in the Newcastle Museum, which was purchased 

 at Mr. Oxley's sale at Redcar in 1871 {Nat. 1887, p. yj), was killed ly 

 G. Mussell in the marsh at Port Clarence, on the north side of the Tees, 

 on 15th May 1869 (cf. Hancock's " Birds of Northd. and Dm." p. 143). 



