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ARCTIC TERN. 
Sterna arctica , Fleming. Selby. Jenyns. 
“ M Eyton. Gould. Yarrell. 
Sterna —........... ? Arctica —Arctic. 
The Arctic Tern, as conveyed by its name, is a bird of the 
north, and rears its young on the shores that are washed by 
the Arctic Seas, both those of the mainland of Europe, Asia, 
and America, and the lonely islands that are exposed on all 
sides to the raving blasts of the Polar Furies—Melville Island, 
Greenland, Iceland, and the Ferroe Islands; Baffin’s Bay, 
Siberia, and Kamtschatka; also in the milder regions of 
Norway, Sweden, Lapland, Holstein, and Denmark, and farther 
south, in Holland, Italy, and the Mediterranean; and in 
Africa at the Cape of Good Hope. 
In Yorkshire, individuals of tlffi species have occurred inland 
near Sheffield; on the coast they are plentiful; so also in 
Durham. The Arctic Tern is not uncommon on the Norfolk 
coast; it has been occasionally killed near Oxford, and in 
other parts of that county. Tn Worcestershire, one, a young 
bird, was shot on the banks of the Severn, near Worcester, 
in October, 1846; great numbers had spread up the river in 
the second week in June, 1842. Also in Glamorganshire, at 
Swansea; in Monmouthshire; and in Somersetshire, at Bridge- 
water, Bristol, Clevedon, Weston, and other places; flocks of 
them appeared in the towns, hundreds were knocked down, 
and some even perched on persons in the streets. The like 
occurred in Worcestershire—near Worcester, Evesham, and at 
Cofton Hall, one of the seats of the Throckmorton family, a 
place associated with most pleasing recollections of my school¬ 
days: then, however, buried in deep retirement, now a railroad 
passes in front of it! Considerable flights were also seen in 
Gloucestershire, at Tewkesbury; in Herefordshire, near Here- 
