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ceive the shell. In the stomach were found the remains 

 of about twenty of the larvce of the broad-bodied dragon- 



STERNA ANGLICA, Montagu. 

 GULL-BILLED TEEN. 



The only record of this species as a Norfolk bird of 

 which I am aware previous to the year 1849, occurs in 

 Messrs. Gurney and Fisher's list, in the following- guarded 

 terms: — "We have seen a specimen of this bird, which 

 was said to have been killed in West Norfolk." This 

 note refers, I believe, to a bird said to have been killed 

 at Hunstanton in the spring of 1839. The appearance, 

 therefore, of several examples of this rare British tern, 

 in the three successive years of 1849, 1850, and 1851, 

 as will be seen from the following extracts from Mr. 

 Stevenson's notes, is certainly very remarkable. 



On the 14th April, 1849, an adult male in full breed- 

 ing plumage, now in the Dennis collection at Bury, 

 was killed on Breydon, and, according to the state- 

 ment attached to the specimen, was 16 inches in length 

 and weighed 8^ ounces. On the 31st July of the same 

 year an adult male, in full breeding plumage, was also 

 killed on Breydon by Mr. P. B. Bellin, as recorded in 

 the ^' Zoologist " by Mr. Gurney and Mr. John Smith, 

 of Yarmouth (pp. 2569 and 2653). On the 1st of the 

 following September Mr. Gurney ("Zoologist," 2592) 

 also notices the occurrence of two other specimens at 

 Yarmouth ; they were " male and female, both adults 

 and beginning to assume the winter dress, the change 

 having progressed somewhat further in the female than 

 in the male." This pair were shot on Breydon, and are 

 now in the Northrepps collection. 



* It may be well to mention that the whiskered tern, which 

 was sold in the late Mr. Rising's collection, was shot on the river 

 Swale, at Hornby Castle, in Yorkshire, by one of the Duke of 

 Leeds' gamekeepers, in 1842, as I am informed by Mr. G. F. 

 Frederick, in whose collection it formerly was. 

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