404 



r ARIDF. 



N. IT AT ORES. 



LARIDjE. 





J. 



THE WHISKERED TERN. 



Sterna leucopureia, Moustache Tern, GouLr, Birds of Europe, pt. xviii. 

 ,, ,, Hirondelle de mer moustuc, Tembi. jNJan. d'Ornith. vol, ii. p. 746. 



,, Dehimotte, ,, ,, ,, de la Motte, Vieii.l. Faun. Fian9. p. 402. 



I AM indebted to the kindness and discrimination of T. C. 

 Heysham, Esq. of Carlisle, for the advantage of inserting this 

 species, new to the British catalogue, and of rare occurrence 

 even on the European continent. At the end of August, 

 188G, a party of two or three persons went out in a boat from 

 Lyme, to amuse themselves with shooting sea-birds, and this 

 Tern, among others, was part of the produce of their guns. 

 JSIr. Heysham shortly afterwards had an opportunity of ex- 

 amining the skins of the birds obtained, selected that of the 

 Whiskered Tern here figured from, and made the arrange- 

 ment by which I became possessed of it. 



