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probably found throughout the year, but tliat does not prove 

 that it breeds*. A pair of T. hypuleiicus were skirting the 

 shore on April 30th ; it has bred once on tlie banks of the 

 river Verdon ('Les Eichesses Ornithologiques/ p. 461). In 

 addition to these^ Jaubert includes T. yhireola, T. fuscus, 

 T, glottis, Squatarola helvetica, and Eudromias morinellus. 



GoDwiTs. Limosa lapponica and L. belgica. 



Lord Lilford does not say which the God wit was that he 

 met with at Toulon, but, according to Jaubert, L. lapponica 

 has only occurred on passage, and that rarely, Avhile the 

 species which Mr. Eagle Clarke met with was the Black- 

 tailed Godwit {L. belgica). 



Sandwich Tern. Sterna cantiaca. " Hiroudelle de mer 

 caugek.^' 



About a dozen birds came round our boat while anchored 

 for fishing in St. Raphael Bay on April 11th, and often 

 dropped into the sea with a splash in pursuit of small grey 

 mullet and young sardines ; again on May 9th a single 

 specimen was placidly floating on a box in the sea. Jaubert 

 regards S. cantiaca as of only accidental occurrence, but it 

 seems from the experience of English observers to be a 

 common bird in the Western Mediterranean. Far larer 

 are ^. caspia, which has once occurred at Nice (Ibis, 1887, 

 p. 283), and S. leucoptera, which has been met with as far 

 inland as Draguignan (Jaubertj, while other Terns included in 

 his ' List ' are S. hybrida, S. nigra, S. minuta, and ^S^. hirundo. 



Lesser Black-backed Gukl. Larus fuscus. " Goeland 

 a pieds jauues.'^ 



There were several of these " Gros Gabians " in St. Raphael 

 Bay, and a few Herring-Gulls — L. cacliinnans Fall. {L. leu- 

 cophaus) I presume — with a darker mantle than our L. argen- 

 tatus, and no doubt yellow legs, but I handled none of them. 



Mediterranean Black-headed Gull. Larus melano- 

 cephalus. 



Lord Lilford, who, though laid up with acute rheumatism 



* Nor does the frequent presence of this species in Norfolk and in 

 Algeria iii summer prove it. (Bee Ibis, 1871, p. 299.) 



