ROSEATE TERN. 



NATATORES. 



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THE ROSEATE TERN. 



Sterna DougalUi, Boseate Tent, Mont. Supp. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 214. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 143. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Seley, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 470. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 265. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. X. 



,, ,, Hirondelle de mer Dougall, Temm. Man. d'Ornith, vol. ii. p. 738. 



The Roseate Tern was first discovered on two small 

 rocky islands, called Cumbray, in the Firth of Clyde, by Dr. 

 Macdougall of Glasgow, who sent a specimen and particulars 

 to Colonel Montagu, from which a figure and description 

 were inserted in the Supplement to his Ornithological Dic- 

 tionary, published in 1813. Since that period this species 

 has been found breeding at various stations frequented by 

 other Terns, and is ascertained to be, like them, a regular 



