TERNS. 103 



of which is preserved in the collection of Sir John 

 Crewe. One was shot in Poole harbour in the month 

 of June by Mr. T. M. Pike. 



WHISKERED TERN. HydrocMidon hyhrida, Pallas. 



Yarrell, iii. p. 527; Dresser, viii. p. 315; Ibis List, p. 184; 

 Sterna liybrida, Harting, p. 168; Seehohm, iii. p. 260. 



The Whiskered Tern is another rare and accidental 

 visitant, only five instances having been recorded of 

 its occurrence in Great Britain. One of these was 

 shot in August 1836 at Lyme Eegis (Yarrell). Its 

 principal breeding-places are the swamps of Anda- 

 lusia, the delta of the Rhine, and the marshes of 

 the Upper Danube, Hungary, and of the Dnieper 

 in South-AYest Eussia. 



CASPIAN TERN. Sterna caspia, Pallas. 



Yarrell, iii. p. 536; Harting, p. 167; Dresser, viii. p. 289; 

 Seeholnn, iii. p. 268; Ibis List, p. 182, 



The Caspian Tern, like the two last-named species, 

 is an accidental straggler. Two were shot on the 

 Weymouth backwater in the autumn of 1848 (W. 

 Thompson), one in Poole harbour in 1869 (E. Hart), 

 and one in the Wareham river in July 1872 (T. M. 

 Pike). It breeds on the shores of the Mediterranean 

 and Black Seas ; on the island of Sylt, and various 

 localities in the basin of the Baltic. 



