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GULL-BILLED TEEN 
Sterna Anglica, Montagu. Bewick. Fleming. Selby. 
“ “ Jenyns. Eyton. Gould. 
Sterna —.? Anglica— -Anglican—English. 
Montagu appears to have been the first to distinguish this 
‘soi-disant’ Anglican species, less peculiar to England than to 
any other of the countries where it is known, and two others, 
as will have been seen, do honour by their names to the 
discrimination of English naturalists. 
It inhabits ‘Europe, Asia, and Africa, occurring in Hungary, 
Italy, Turkey, France, Jutland, Holland, Egypt, Nubia, India, 
the Isles of Sunda, Java, the United States in North, and 
the Brazils in South America. 
They breed in Denmark in the Sylt marshes. 
In the county of Norfolk, one of these Terns was shot at 
Yarmouth, on the 31&t. of July, 1849, and two others, a pair 
of adult birds, male and female, at the same place on the 
1st. of September that year; one the 24th. of May, 1850, and 
ODe the beginning of July, 1851. In Yorkshire, one was 
captured near Leeds, in the West Riding, in July, 1843. In 
Cornwall, a specimen was shot by John Jenkinson, Esq., at 
Scilly, the end of May or beginning of June, 1852. Two in 
1839, one of them in Kent, in the month of June. 
They addict themselves to salt-water lakes, swamps, and 
other such localities. 
They migrate in May and September. 
They feed on winged and water insects, frogs and tadpoles, 
small fish, taken up as they skim along, and worms, when 
visible above ground; they are said also to prey on the eggs 
and young of other birds. 
The note is like the syllables ‘ha, ha, ha.’ 
The nesting-places of this species are marshy grounds not 
far from the sea-beach. A small hollow is scratched in the 
sand or gravel, and in this a few stems of grass and small 
roots are placed. 
