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hillock. On making a little detour I came within full view 

 of it, and had ample opportunity of examining it with binoculars 

 before it again took wing, and as before, only going a little 

 distance. I again followed, and had another good look at it, 

 but when it rose this time it put a much greater distance 

 between us. 



It looked in beautiful breeding-plumage, and I have no 

 doubt was resting on its northward passage to its breeding- 

 quarters. The white stripes on the side of the head, white 

 on the throat, and the broad band of reddish-chestnut on the 

 lower breast, were all very conspicuous. Walter Stewart. 



WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERNS IN NORFOLK. 



In addition to the flock of White- winged Black Terns in 

 Sussex which Mr. Ford-Lindsay mentions {supra, p. 54), I am 

 able to state the presence of two individuals on one of the 

 Norfolk Broads on May 16th, 1911, thirteen days earlier 

 than those recorded by Mr. Ford-Lindsay. They were seen 

 by a well-trained observer, ^\'ho writes me that they played 

 around him for a considerable time on the Broad, with 

 eighteen Black Terns, sometimes coming as near as within 

 two yards. The red colour of their legs and beaks sho^^ed 

 plainly in contrast with those of the Black Tern, which are 

 dark. J. H. Gurney. 



NESTING OF THE COMMON TERN IN THE 

 ISLE OF MAN. 



On June 10th, 1911, while at a colony of Arctic Terns long 

 established at the Point of Ayre, Isle of ]\Ian, I found a small 

 colony of Terns, four to five pairs perhaps, the species of 

 which I was not then able to determine, breeding on the 

 same shingle-bed and \\ithin a couple of hundred yards of 

 the Arctic Terns. A subsequent visit on June 18th, resulted 

 in my obtaining one of the nesting birds, which proved 

 to be an adult Common Tern {S tenia fiuinatilis) . This, the 

 first recorded appearance of the Common Teni as a nesting 

 species in Man, is perhaps significant in view of the extensive 

 building operations that have been taking place at Walney 

 Island, off the Lancashire coast, some fifty miles away, and 

 where colonies of Arctic, Lesser, Common, and Sandwich 

 Terns exist, or did so up to within very recently. Perhaps 

 the Sandwich Teni too may establish itself shortly as a nesting 

 species, on the quiet sand and shingle-wastes of the Ayre. 



M. V. Wenner. 



