298 BIRDS OP NOEFOLK. 



discovered by Mr. Stevenson in the Dennis collection, at 

 Bury, marked Breydon, June, 1850 ; it is a male in 

 perfect summer plumage; tlie sex was not noted (see 

 "Zoologist," p. 2915), It is doubtless this bird also 

 to which the following note in Mr. Stevenson's MS. 

 refers: — "Young Harvey, of Yarmouth, says one of 

 Mr. Gurney's birds was shot by a Mr. Goodwin, of the 

 North End [Yarmouth] , thirty years ago [there is noth- 

 ing to indicate the date of this memorandum], on 

 Breydon Wall. It was never in Mr. Gurney's posses- 

 sion, although he recorded it." 



No. 8. An adult male in full summer plumage, is 

 in Mr. Gurney's collection, at Northrepps. (See J. 0. 

 Harper, in Morris's "Naturalist," 1852, p. 128. 



No. 9, and the last example known to have occurred 

 in this county, is an adult male, now in the collection of 

 the Rev. C. J. Lucas, of Burgh ; like the earlier speci- 

 mens this was also killed from the Breydon Wall. 



The above particulars are gleaned mainly from Mr. 

 Stevenson's note books, and with the assistance of Mr. 

 J. H. Gurney, jun. 



STERNA SANDVICENSIS, Latham.* 

 SANDWICH TERN. 



This species has occurred much more frequently on 

 the Norfolk coast than the Caspian tern, although per- 

 haps not so frequently as might have been expected. 



Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear state that it had been 

 killed at Yarmouth ; Hunt also, in his " List," says that 

 " several have been killed on Yarmouth beach;" and the 

 Messrs. Paget say it is " not uncommon." Of late years 

 their remark, as will be seen, certainly would not apply ; 

 but as it formerly bred in Suffolk (Latham), Essex 

 (Parsons), and Kent (Plomley), it is quite possible that 



* " General Synopsis," Suppl. I. p. 296 (1787). In his " Index 

 Ornithologicus" (vol. ii. p. 806), published in 1790, the same 

 author named it S. boysii, after its discoverer ; and in the mean- 

 while Gmelin (1788) had called it S. cantiaca, 



