TERNS 473 



One, same harbour, June 1850. In the Bury Museum. 

 One, perhaps the same, July 16, 1850 : Gurney, Zool., 1850, 



p. 2915. Two or three others seen. 

 One, Norfolk coast, Aug. 11, 1851: Gurney, Zool., 1851, 



p. 3235 ; Harper, Nat, 1852, p. 128. In the collection 



of Mr. Gurney. 

 One, Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, May 17, 1853 : Footit, Zool., 



1853, p. 3946 ; Yarrell, op. cit. 

 One near Yarmouth, May 2, 1862 : Stevenson, Zool, 1862, 



p. 8093 ; and " Birds of Norfolk," vol. iii. p. 296. 

 One, Christchurch Harbour, Hants, 1853 : Wise, " New 



Forest," p. 317; Gurney, Zool, 1869, p. 1512. 

 One, Poole Harbour, 1869 : Mansell-Pleydell, I.e. In the 



collection of Mr. E. Hart. 

 One, Wareham, Dorset, July 1872: Mansell-Pleydell, 



" Birds of Dorset," p. 103. 

 One, Filey, Yorkshire, Sept. 1874: WilHs, Field, Nov. 15, 



1879. Identified by Prof. Newton. 

 One seen Fame Islands, June 6, 1880 ; Bidwell, Zool, 1887, 



p. 458. Identified by its large red bill. 



Ohs. See Gurney " On the Occurrence in England 

 of the Caspian Tern," Zool, 1887, p. 457. 



SOOTY TERN. Sterna fidiginosa, Gmelin. Length, 

 17 in. ; bill, 2 in. ; wing, 1175 in. ; tarsus, 0*9 in. 



Hah. West India Islands, Central America, South Sea 

 Islands, and Australia. Also Ascension Island, where it 

 breeds in some numbers.^ 



One, Tutbury, near Burton-on-Trent, Oct. 1852 : Brown, 

 Zool, 1853, p. 3755 ; Sir Oswald Moseley, " Nat. Hist. 

 Tutbury," p. 110. In the collection of Mr. H. W. 

 Desvoeux, of Drakelow Hall ; exhibited by Yarrell at a 

 meeting of the Linnean Society in Feb. 1853. 



' For a description of this breeding-place, cf. Sperling, Ibis, 1868, 

 pp. 286-288. 



