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believed to belong to this species, but were not 

 satisfactorily identified (ZooL, 1864, p. 9156). The 

 nest was composed of small pieces of driftwood and 

 bits of sandgrass, while the other Terns laid their 

 eggs in mere depressions of the sand. 



On migration the Roseate Tern is occasionally 

 met with in inland localities where it does not 

 breed. For example, on Aug. 16, 1866, two of 

 these birds visited Kingsbury Reservoir, one of which 

 I shot. It proved to be an immature bird with the 

 outer tail feathers not fully grown up, and the 

 scapulars much mottled. The irides were hazel, 

 the legs and feet brownish yellow. At Hunstanton, 

 in 1880, one was shot on July 12, and was for- 

 warded to the late Lord Lilford, who presented it 

 to the Norwich Museum. See ZooL, 1897, p. 165. 



Unlike the Common and Arctic Terns, the bill 

 of this species when adult is black, with the gape 

 orange ; the legs and feet orange-red. 



SANDWICH TERN. Sterna cantiaca, Gmelin. PI. 33, 

 fig. 4. Length, 16 in. ; bill, 2-5 in. ; wing, 12 in. ; 

 tarsus, 1 in. 



So named from the locality where it was first 

 detected as a British bird by Mr. Boys of Sandwich. 

 It is a summer visitant, but very local ; seldom 

 nesting far from salt water, though it has been 

 found breeding in small numbers on low flat islands 

 in Loch Lomond and Loch Leven. I have seen 

 small colonies on the Fame Islands, and on Walney 

 Island, off the coast of Lancashire, at both of which 



