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in honour of a correspondent of Colonel Montagu, 

 Dr. M'Dougall of Glasgow, who first discovered it 

 as a British bird frequenting the Cumbraes in the 

 Firth of Clyde. Montagu, to whom he sent a 

 specimen, described and figured it in 1813 in the 

 Supplement to his " Ornithological Dictionary." 

 Selby subsequently found it breeding on the Fame 

 Islands, where, in his day (1826), there was "a 

 numerous colony which occupied a large space of 

 ground near to that selected by the Arctic species, 

 and a second station upon one of the ' Walmsies.' " 

 A few pairs, recognised by their long tails and 

 peculiar harsh cry, were seen in May 1863, when I 

 visited the islands in company with the late Dr. 

 Embleton. He had procured the eggs of this 

 species there the previous year, two of which he 

 gave me. In May 1864 I received another egg 

 of this Tern, which was taken there by a friend 

 at Newcastle who was in the habit of annually 

 visiting the Fame Isles, and was well acquainted 

 Avith the birds breeding there. In 1866 Mr. 

 Saunders heard of a single nest of Sterna dougalli 

 there, which contained three eggs (ZooL, 1866, p. 

 185). In 1880 and 1881 there were several pairs 

 on the Noxies, and at least two pairs are known to 

 have nested on these islands in 1892 {Zool., 1893, 

 p. 233). There is no breeding haunt in Ireland. 



On Walney Island, on the coast of Lancashire, I 

 saw Roseate Terns on the 31st May 1864, and 

 found a nest containing two eggs, which from their 

 elongated shape and characteristic markings were 



