260 . BRITISH BIRDS. 



Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 6(J0 (1846). 



STERNA HYBRIDA. 



WHISKERED TERN. 



(Plate 49.) 



Sterna leucopareia, Natt.Jide Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 746 (1820). 



Sterna javanicaJ jj-. j.^,^^^^ j^.^^^^ ^.^^ ^..j ^gg ^^g (i822). 



Sterna grisea, I "^ ff > K J 



Viralva indica, I ^^.^j^^ ^j^^^^,^ g^^^ ^^^^_ ^jj._ _ j_ ^^^ ^^^ (1825). 



Viralva leucopareia (i\^««.), I t fi . v ^ 



Sterna hybrida, I'all. Zuoyr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 338 (1826) ; et auctorum pluri- 



morum — (Bonaparte), {Blusius), Schlegel, Finsch, (Salvadori), (Ifu?ne), {Legge), 



{David 4' Oustalet), (Dresser), {Saunders), &c. 

 Sterna delamottei, Vieill. Faun. Fi-ang. p. 402 (1828). 

 Pelodes leucopareia {Natt.), Kaup, Natiirl. Sijsf. p. 107 (1829). 

 Hydrochelidon leucoparia {Natt.), Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 7i>7 (1831). 

 Sterna similis, Gray i^- llardw. III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 70. tig. 2 (1832). 

 Hvdroclielidun fluviatilis, Gould, Proc. Zool, Soc. 1842, p. 140. 

 Hvdrochelidon hybrida (Pall.), 

 Hydrochelidon grisea (Horsf.), 

 Hydrochelidon similis (Gray 8f Hardiv.), 

 Hydrochelidon javanica (Horsf.), 

 Hydrochelidon indica (Steph.), 

 Hydrochelidon delalandii, Bonap. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 773 (1856). 

 Sterna iuuotata, Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 404. 

 Pelodes hybrida (Pall.), Gtirney, A^iderss. B. Damara L. p. 362 (1872). 



Although the Whiskered Tern was discovered by Pallas as long ago as 

 1774, the misfortunes which befell that ornithologist's great work allowed 

 Temminck to name the species six years before the ' Zoographia Rosso- 

 Asiatica ' was published, the Whiskered Tern having been rediscovered 

 in the meantime in South Hungary by Mr. Natterer of Vienna, whose 

 name Temminck adopted. It is the rarest of the three Marsh-Terns in 

 the British Islands, and can only be regarded as an accidental visitor to 

 our shores. 



The first recorded example was shot late in August 1836, at Lyme-Regis 

 in Dorsetshire (Yarrell, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 517) ; a second was shot in 

 September 1839, in Dublin Bay (Thompson, 'Zoologist,-' 1847, p. 1877) ; 

 a third was shot on the 17th of June 1817, on Hickling Broad, in Norfolk 

 (Gurncy and Fisher, 'Zoologist,' 1847, p. 1820); a fourth was shot in 

 August 1851, on one of the Scilly Islands (Rodd, 'Zoologist,' 1851, 

 p. 3280) ; and a fifth was picked up alive, in May 1865, near Plymouth 



