GULL-BILLED TERN. 



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NATATORES. 



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THE GULL-BILLED TERN. 



Sterna Anglica, GvU-hilled Tern, Mont, Supp. Ornith. Diet. 



,, „ ,, ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 219. 



,, ,, ., ,, ., Fi.EM. Brit. An. p. 143. 



,, ,, ,, ,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 480. 



,, ,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 269. 



,, ,, ,, ,, ,, Eyton, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 97. 



,, ,, ,, ,, ,, Goui.D, Birds of Europe, pt. vii. 



,, ,, Hirondelle de mer hansel, Temm. Man. d'Ornlth. vol. ii. p. 744. 



This species was first made known by Colonel Montagu, 

 who gave a figure and description of it in the supplement to 

 his Ornithological Dictionary, published in the year 1813; 

 one specimen was shot by himself in Sussex, and he saw two 

 others that had been killed at Rye. The birds obtained 

 were at first confounded with the Sandwich Tern, but the 

 form and length of the bill in the two birds, which are quite 

 different, soon led Montagu to a just appreciation of the 

 specific distinctions, and he called it S. Anglica, because it 

 was not known to him as existing elsewhere. I have heard 

 of two examples killed in this country, both in 1839 ; one in 



