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Montagu's specimen, the type of the species, is now in the 

 British Museum. The next occurrence is one stated by 

 Mr. John Skaife (Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 530), 

 to have been shot at Blackpool in Lancashire in the summer 

 of 1832. The Author heard of two examples killed in this 

 country, both in 1839 ; one in Kent, in the month of June, 

 but he mislaid the letter which contained the particulars of 

 the other. One recorded by Mr. H. Denny (Ann. & Mag. 

 N. H. xii. p. 297), was taken near Leeds in the last week of 

 July, 1843, and was noticed at the York meeting of the 

 British Association. 



In Norfolk the Gull-billed Tern has been observed more 

 frequently than in any other county. According to Mr. 

 Harting, one shot on Breydon Water, on the 14th April, 

 1849, is in the Museum of Bury St. Edmunds, and another 

 Norfolk-killed specimen is in the Wisbeach Museum (Hbk. 

 Brit. B. p. 171). Mr. J. H. Gurney mentions an adult male 

 obtained on the 31st July; a male and female on the 1st 

 September, 1849 ; an adult on the 24th May, 1850 ; and a 

 male in summer plumage in the early part of July, 1851 

 —all near Yarmouth (Zool. pp. 2569, 2592, 2853, 3235). 

 Returning to the south coast, Mr. A. E. Knox states that 

 there is a specimen in his collection, shot near Rye, and 

 another in the Chichester Museum, killed at Selsea, on the 

 31st of March, 1852 (Orn. Rambles, p. 253). The late Mr. 

 Rodd says that in a private collection at Penzance there is 

 a Gull-billed Tern presented by the late Rev. Mr. Rice of 

 South Hill, together with a portion of an egg which dropped 

 when he shot the bird near Brighton. On the 14th May, 

 1872, Baron A. Von Hligel obtained one near Christchurch, 

 Hants (Zool. s.s. p. 3149), which he has presented to the 

 British Museum ; and, according to Mr. J. Gatcombe, one was 

 procured near Plymouth in the autumn of 1866 (Zool. s.s. 

 p. 557). About the end of May or beginning of June, 1852, 

 the Rev. John Jenkinson shot an adult near Trescoe Abbey, 

 Scilly (Zool. p. 3536) ; and on the 11th July, 1872, Mr. 

 Rodd examined a female bird in summer plumage, which was 

 killed at St. Just, near Penzance (Zool. s.s. p. 3188), The 



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