SOOTY TERN 401 
Allied Species and Representative Forms. — There are 
several racial representatives of the Little Tern :—S. sinensis 
from the East, is larger and has white shafts to all its 
primaries. S. saundersi, with black shafts, inhabits Africa 
and India. The North American form, S. antillarum, has 
dark shafts, but has grey on the rump and very little black 
at the tip of the beak, whereas S. superciliaris, found along 
the east side of South America, and far up the great rivers, 
has a strongly-built beak, completely yellow in colour 
(Saunders). 
SOOTY TERN. Sterna fuliginosa (J. ¥. Gmelin). 
Coloured Figures.—Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. vii, pl. 587 ; 
Lilford, ‘ Coloured Figures,’ vol. vi, pl. 11. 
Of the occurrence of this very rare visitor three instances 
are cited by Mr. Saunders, and since the publication of the 
second edition of his ‘ Manual’ in 1899, there have been two 
other records. 
In October, 1852, a specimen obtained at Tutbury, near 
Burton-on-Trent. was exhibited by Yarrell before the Lin- 
nean Society in February, 1853. 
On June 21st, 1869, another was secured near Walling- 
ford in Berkshire, which was examined in the flesh by Mr. 
Harting. 
On October 4th or 5th, 1885, a third example was caught 
alive about three miles from Bath, after stormy weather ; 
if was examined in the flesh by the late Rev. Leonard 
Blomefield. 
In the ‘ Zoologist,’ 1902, p. 355, mention is made of a 
Sooty Tern in adult plumage, which was picked up on 
October 9th, 1901, in an exhausted state, in Hulme, a 
densely-populated district of Manchester. The bird soon 
died and was subsequently set up and exhibited at a meeting 
of the British Ornithologists’ Club on November 20th, by 
Mr. Saunders (C. Oldham). 
In the ‘ Zoologist,’ 1908, p. 3938, Mr. W. G. Clarke, of 
Norwich, writes that a bird found dead on the heath-land 
between Thetford and Brandon, towards the end of March 
or beginning of April, 1900, and erroneously supposed to 
have been a Black Tern, has been identified by him as a 
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