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LESSER TERN. 
LITTLE TEEN. 
Sterna miuuta, Linn.eus. Pennant. Montagu. 
“ “ Bewick. Fleming. Selby. 
“ “ Jeny'ns. Gould. 
“ minor , BRISSON. 
“ metopoleucos, Gmelin. 
Sterna —.? Minuta — Minute—small. 
The Little Tern, in Europe, is found on the coasts of 
Holland, France, Holstein, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and 
Russia; also a few in Germany. In America they range from 
the States to the Gulf of Mexico. In Africa, along the western 
shores and in the Canary Islands. In Asia, in India, Siberia, 
and in the neighbourhood of the Black Sea and the Caspian 
Sea. 
This species, ‘La Petite Hirondelle-de-Mer,’ is common on 
the coast of Norfolk. In the county of York, specimens 
have been procured near Huddersfield, at Ecclesfield, near 
Sheffield, and not unfrequently near Barnsley; also, naturally 
on the coast. In Cornwall, one was obtained at Mount’s 
Bay, April lGth., 1852. They have been likewise noticed 
on the coasts of Essex and Suffolk. 
It occurs at uncertain intervals, as I have been informed 
by Mr. Thomas Thorncroft, in the neighbourhood of Shore- 
ham; two were shot by him there in May, 1850; seven or 
eight appeared in May, 1853, near Brighthampton, Oxford¬ 
shire; others near Oxford, two April 23rd., 1853. One was 
seen by the Revs. Andrew and Henry Matthews, in June, 
1846, flying about the margin of the lake in Kirtlington 
Park, near Weston-on-the-Green. In Cambridgeshire one, a 
