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in the Azores. The Common Tern comes about the middle of 

 April, and is to be seen in considerable numbers about the sea- 

 coast and mountain-lakes, departing, I was told, about the middle 

 of September. It breeds on the small islands about the sea-coast. 



Sterna dougalli, Latham. " Carajao." 



Mr. S. Dabney, of Fayal, told me that when he was in Flores, 

 about the year 1855, he shot several Terns with pink breasts. 

 During my visit to that island I kept a sharp look out for 

 them, but did not see any, nor could I find any one amongst 

 the inhabitants who knew the bird, though S. fluviatilis was 

 common enough. On my return to Fayal, I one day took a 

 walk to Castello Branco, a large high rock almost detached 

 from the mainland. There were a great many Gulls and Com- 

 mon Terns flying about ; and whilst I was watching them as 

 they flew along the side of the clifi", I noticed five or six 

 Roseate Terns amongst them ; some of these came within a 

 few yards of me, but 1 did not shoot at them, as they would have 

 fallen into the sea at the foot of the clifi^, where I could not 

 have picked them up. I suspect this species arrives later than 

 the Common Tern, as I afterwards saw several more near the 

 west point of the same island. 



RissA TRiDACTYLA (Linnseus). 



There were a few Kittiwakes about the harbour of Ponta 

 Delgada when I first arrived ; but I did not see them elsewhere. 

 The master of one of the fruit-schooners told me that this and 

 the next species frequently followed their vessels for the whole 

 of the voyage from England. I do not know that it breeds in 

 the Azores. 



Larus argentatus, Linnseus. " Gar9a branco." 

 Common everywhere about the sea-coasts and mountain- 

 lakes. Some remain throughout the year, though there are said 

 to be more in summer than in winter. They breed about the 

 coast, and particularly on a small island about a quarter of a 

 mile from the south-west point of Fayal, which in June was 

 quite covered with them. 



PuFFiNus MAJOR, Fabcr. " Cargara." 



To be seen throughout the archipelago. It breeds, in holes 



