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SANDWICH TERN. 
STRIATED TERN, (YOUNG.) 
Sterna Boysii , Pennant. Fleming. Selby, 
“ Cuntiaca , Montagu. Bewick. 
“ “ Jenyns. Gould. 
Sterna —. ..? Boy a d — Of Boys. 
This Tern has received its Latin name from that of Dr. 
Boys, its first discoverer; and its English one from Sand¬ 
wich, in Kent, the place where it then occurred. 
It is more or less common in various parts of Europe 
—Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Holland, and Friesland, 
France, Switzerland, Italy, and along the shores of the 
Mediterranean. In Africa, it has been found at the Cape; 
and in North America from Texas and Charleston to Florida; 
and in South America, in Mexico and Brazil. In Asia, in 
Kamtschatka; also in New Zealand. 
In Yorkshire, the Sandwich Tern has occurred near 
Huddersfield; in Derbyshire, occasionally near Melbourne. 
In Cornwall, it has been met with about Swanpool, Fal¬ 
mouth, but is rare; also in Devonshire, Sussex, Suffolk, and 
Durham; in Norfolk, it is not uncommon about Yarmouth, 
one was shot at Hunstanton, September 6th., 1851. In 
Oxfordshire it has been killed on Otmoor and near Oxford, 
the latter specimen on the 24th. of August, 1847; three or 
four others were shot near Oxford, on the Isis, April 23rd., 
1853. 
In Ireland, the species occurs as an occasional straggler. 
In Scotland, it has been noticed in Sutherlandshire and 
on the Frith of Forth, the Isle of May, and the Berwick¬ 
shire coast. 
