168 RARE VISITANTS. 
One, Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, 17th May, 1853: Footit, 
Zoologist, 1853, p. 8946; Yarrell, op. cit. 
One near Yarmouth, May 1862: Stevenson, Zoologist, 1862, 
p-. 8093. 
One, Christchurch, Hants: Wise, New Forest, p. 317; 
Gurney, Zoologist, 1869, p. 1512. 
SWIFT TERN. Sterna velox, Riippell. 
Hab. North-western, Northern, and North-eastern Africa. 
One between Dublin and Howth, Dee. 1846. 
Two seen same time: Thompson, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. xx. 
p- 170; Zoologist, 1847, p. 1878; Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds), 
vol. ii. p. 266; Blake Knox, Zoologist, 1866, p. 305. 
Obs. This species appears to have been accidentally 
omitted from the last (8rd) edition of Yarrell’s 
‘History of British Birds, since it was recorded to 
have been procured in Ireland long before that edition 
was published. Some interesting remarks on its 
habits, nesting, &c. may be found in ‘ The Ibis,’ 1860, 
p. 127, and 1864, p. 337. 
WHISKERED TERN. Sterna hybrida, Pallas. 
Hab. Southern Europe, India, and North Africa. 
One, Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, August 1836: Yarrell, Hist. 
Brits Birds, vol. ai... 517%. 
One, Dublin Bay, Sept. 1839: Thompson, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. vol. xx. p.170; Zoologist, 1847, p. 1878; Nat. Hist. 
Trel. (Birds), vol. i. p. 298; Blake Knox, Zoologist, 1866, 
p- 306. 
* Mr. Yarrell says (J. c.), ‘‘ five examples have occurred in Britain 
in the last six or seven years;” but he only gives particulars of 
one. 
