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EOSEATE TEEN. 
Sterna Dougnlli, 
Montagu. 
Sterna— .? Dougalli —Of (Mac)dougall. 
The species before us extends its flight in Europe, from 
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, to France, Holland, Germany, 
and Italy. Specimens have been procured in Africa, at the 
Gape of Good Hope, and in Madeira. In Asia, from India; 
and in America it is plentiful in Florida. 
This very elegant Tern was first discovered by Dr. Mac- 
dougall, after whom it was named. He found it on an 
island called Cumbrav, in the Frith of Clyde. It has since 
been observed in divers other localities, among them in 
Cumberland, at Brugh Marsh Point, on the Solway Frith. 
In Yorkshire specimens have occurred at Scarborough, 
Hornsea, and Hebden Bridge. One was shot at Swanpool, 
Falmouth, Cornwall, October 1st., 1846; so too in Devonshire, 
and in Norfolk at Yarmouth. Likewise in Oxfordshire, two 
on the Eiver Isis, near Oxford, and one at Tusmore Park, 
near Bicester, in the summer of 1848. T. C. Eyton, Esq., 
of Eyton, has recorded its capture in Shropshire. 
In Ireland it is a rare species; has occurred in the county 
of Dublin, and also in the Bay of Belfast. 
They breed on the Fern Islands, the Walmseys, and. 
Coquet Island, off the Northumbrian coast; also in numbers 
on Foulney Island, on the coast of Lancashire. In Scotland, 
in the Isle of May, in the Frith of Forth; and, as already 
mentioned, on the Cumbray Islands, in the Frith of Clyde. 
This species arrives about the middle of May, and departs 
by the end of September. 
When engaged with their young, these birds shew great 
anxiety, and permit a close approach. They are naturally 
shy. 
