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COMMON TERN. 
GREATER TERN. SEA SWALLOW. GULL TEASER. 
Sterna hirvndo , Pennant. Montagu. Bewick. 
“ “ Fleming. Selby. Jenyns. 
“ “ Gould. Yabrell. 
“ major , Bkisson. 
ILrundo marina , Ray. Willoughby. 
Sterna —.? Hirundo —A Swallow 
It would appear that this species is not so common as 
is imported by its name, other kinds having been confounded 
with it in the first instance. 
It visits Germany, France, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, 
Italy, and the Mediterranean, from Norway, Spitzbergen, and 
other places of the north. In Asia it is seen, Asia Minor; 
and in Africa on the west coast, in Madeira, and the Canary 
Islands. In America, in Greenland and about Hudson’s 
Bay, and so southwards to New England and other parts. 
In Cornwall it occurs about Gwyllyn Vase, Swanpool, 
and Falmouth, but is not common there, though generally 
elsewhere. It is however not unfrequently seen quite inland, 
as in Oxfordshire, especially in the spring months. In 
Worcestershire one, a young bird, was shot near Worcester, 
on the banks of the River Severn, in October, 1846. In 
Monmouthshire another, also a young one, was obtained on 
the 12th. of the same month; others were seen. Some large 
flocks had occurred a few years before. In Surrey this bird 
has been frequently shot at Frensham Pond, near Godaiming. 
Two at Chertsey, October 6th., 1846. One was killed at 
Bushy Park, and others nearly forty miles up the Thames. 
It is very common on the Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and 
Norfolk coasts. Specimens, too, have occurred inland in the 
first-named county, at Leeds, though rarely, Huddersfield, 
