3D 
WHISKERED TERN. 
Sterna leucopareia , Gould. Temminck. 
“ Delamotte , Vieillot. 
Sterna— .? Leucop „ eia. 
Pareion — Tlie chee '• 
Leucos — White. 
The Tern thus denominated has, in Europe, been noticed 
in France and Italy, Hungary, Germany, and Dalmatia; in 
Africa, in Egypt; and in Asia, in Syria and Borneo. 
In England, the occurrence of the first specimen was near 
Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, the end of August, 1836. The 
fact was placed on record by T. C. Heysham, Esq., of Car¬ 
lisle, and his name goes down to posterity in connection 
with it; as do those of other observers in like instances: 
‘dikaion gar autois, kai prepon de ama, on to toiode, ten 
timen tauten tes mnemes didosthai,’ as Thucydides used to 
have it. A second was shot on Heigham sands, Norfolk, 
on the 19th. of June, 1847, so P. Hansell, Esq. informed 
me. One, a female in adult plumage, is recorded in the 
‘Zoologist,’ page 1820, by J. H. Gurney and W. E. Fisher, 
Esqrs., to have been shot while flying over Hicklmg Broad, 
Yarmouth, on the 17th. of that month: I conclude that one 
and the same specimen is intended. 
In Ireland, another was obtained on the River Liffey, near 
Dublin, in the month of September, 1839. . 
Male; length, eleven inches and a half; bill, red, inclining 
to dark brown towards the tip; from its base a streak of 
white goes backwards below the eye, and gives the bird the 
name it has hence received. Iris, brownish black.. Forehead, 
crown, neck on the back, and nape, black, in winter white, 
a black spot being left behind the eye; chin and throat, 
greyish white; breast, dark grey, paler in winter; back, dark 
grey, paler in winter. 
