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One, North Bay, Scarborough, Dec. 7, 1894: Halting, 

 ZooL, 1895, p. 70. Exhibited by me at meeting of 

 Linnean Society, Proc. Linn. Soc, Jan. 17, 1895. 



Two, Filey, Yorkshire, Jan. 30, 1895 : 0. Grabham, Zool, 

 loc. clt. 



One, Guyhirne, on the Nene, Cambridgeshh'e, Jan. 12, 

 1895; Tuck, Zool, 1895, p. 70; Lilford, Zool, 1895, 

 p. 109; Field, Mar. 9, 1895. 



One, mouth of the Orwell, Suffolk : Babington, " Birds of 

 Suffolk," p. 246. 



Ohs. This bird breeds in Greenland beyond lat. 

 64°. Mr. Eaton reported it as breeding in thousands 

 in Spitsbergen {Zool, 1874, p. 3818), and Col. Feil- 

 den found a large colony on the cliffs of Saunderson's 

 Hope (over 1000 feet in height) to the south of Uper- 

 navik ; Zool, 1878, p. 380. Mr. H. J. Pearson in his 

 recently published volume, "Beyond Petsora East- 

 ward," reproduces a striking photograph of Brlin- 

 nich's Guillemot in one of its breeding haunts. The 

 expanse of wing in one which I measured was 24i 

 in., another 26 in. Weight, 2 lbs. 10 oz. 



Order XIV. GAVIiE 



Fam. LARID^. 



GULL-BILLED TERN, merna anglica, Montagu. 

 Length, 15 in.; bill, 175 in.; wing, 12-5 in.; tarsus, 

 1-5 in. 



Hah. Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, India 

 and Southern China, North and South America. 



One, Sussex: Montagu, "Orn. Diet. Suppl.," 1813. Type 

 in Montagu's collection in the British Museum. " Others 

 have been killed about Rye " {op. cit). 



