170 RARE VISITANTS. 
Islands, and Australia. Also Ascension Island, where it 
breeds in some numbers *. 
One, Tutbury, near Burton-on-Trent, 1853: Brown, Zoolo- 
gist, 1853, p. 3755; Sir Oswald Moseley, Nat. Hist. Tut- 
bury, p. 110. In the collection of Mr. H. W. Desveeux. 
One on the Thames, near Wallingford, Berks, 21st June, 
1869: Harting, The Field, 26th June, 1869; Zoologist, 
1869, p. 1867. In the possession of Mr. Franklyn. This 
bird was brought to me for examination shortly after it 
was killed, and before it was skinned. 
One on the estuary of the Axe, near Axminster: Rev. J. B. 
Selwood, The Field, 17th July, 1869. It is doubtful 
whether this may not have been Sterna fissipes. The 
death of Mr. Selwood has unfortunately prevented a solu- 
tion of the doubt. 
NODDY TERN. Sterna stolida, Linneus. 
Hab. Central America, West-India Islands, South-Sea 
Islands, and Australia. 
Two between Wexford and Dublin: Thompson, Trans. Linn. 
Soc. 1835; Nat. Hist. Irvel. (Birds), vol. i. p. 308. 
One, co. Dublin: Blake Knox, Zoologist, 1866, p. 306. 
Obs. This species has been recorded as “a summer 
visitant to St. George’s Channel” (cf. Austin, Ann. 
Nat. Hist. vol. ix. p. 435); but doubtless Sterna 
Jissipes is the species intended. 
GULL-BILLED TERN. Sterna anglica, Montagu. 
Hab. Europe, North Africa, and America. 
One, Sussex: Montagu, Orn. Dict. Suppl. 1813+. Type in 
Col. Montagu’s collection in the British Museum. 
* For a description of this breeding-place, cf. Sperling, ‘ Ibis,’ 
1868, pp. 286-288. 
7 ‘ Others have been killed about Rye ” (Montagu, /. ¢.). 
