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Genus GELOCHELIDON. 
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394, GELOCHELIDON ANGLICA. . . . . . Vol. V. Pl. LXXIY. 
GULL-BILLED TERN. 
A bird of the eastern portion of Europe, Africa, and Asia, and 
quite an accidental visitant to Britain. 
Genus HyprocHELIDon. 
The members of this genus frequent marshes for the purpose of 
breeding, and deposit their eggs in regular-formed nests of herbage. 
The entire group consists of about ten species, which are widely 
distributed over the globe. 
395. HypDROCHELIDON NIGRA ... . . . Vol. V. Pl. LXXY. 
Brack TERN. 
A summer visitant, breeding in several of the marshes of 
England. 
396. HyDROCHELIDON LEUCOPTERA . . . . Vol. V. Pl. LX XVI. 
WHITE-WINGED TERN. 
An accidental visitor from countries to the south-eastward of our 
islands. 
397. HypROCHELIDON LEUCOPAREFIA . . . Vol. V. Pl. LX XVII. 
WuHiIskERED TERN. 
An accidental visitor from Eastern Europe. 
Genus ANovs. 
398. ANOUS STOLIDUS. 
Noddy Tern. 
A bird common to many seas; it is not therefore surprising that 
a solitary individual has now and then wandered to fish in our 
waters. Itis a common species, very generally known, consequently 
not figured. 
Subfamily STERCORARITN. 
Genus STERCORARIUS. 
Parasitic Gulls are to a certain extent affined to the Petrels, and 
for this reason have been placed next them in the present volume. 
Members of this group, which are eight or ten in number, frequent 
the seas of both hemispheres, are tyrants of the ocean, waging war 
and domineering over all the birds, and robbing them of the fish 
they have taken. 
