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LARID^. 



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Hydrochelidon leucoptera (Schinz*). 



THE WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN. 



Sterna leucoptera. 



The first notice of the occurrence of this handsome 

 straggler to the British Islands was published by Mr. 

 Frederick M'Coy (Annals Nat. Hist. xv. p. 271), who 

 stated that a specimen was shot by Mr. J. Hill on the 

 Shannon in 1841 ; but the latter, writing to ' Saunders's 

 Newsletter,' April 14th, 1847, said that he killed the bird on 

 the river Liffey, near the Pigeon-house Fort, Dublin Bay, in 

 October, 1841. Thompson says (B. of Ireland, iii. p. 307), that 

 he has seen another specimen killed near the same locality, 

 and which came into the possession of Mr. Watters of 

 Dublin. Next in order of date is one shot by the keeper 

 of Mr. R. Rising, in whose collection it now is, at Horsey 

 Mere, Norfolk, on the 17th May, 1853 (Zool. p. 3911) ; and 

 Gould states (B. of Gt. Brit, v.), on the authority of Mr. N. 

 Troughton, that two were obtained near Coventry in June, 

 1857. Mr. W. E. Clarke states (Hbk. Yorks. Vertebs. p. 80), 

 * Sterna leucoptera, Schinz, in Meisner & Schinz's Yog. Schweiz, p. 264 (1815). 



