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is at present known to have occurred in Britain (see 

 Seebohm u. s.). See PL VII. 



Caspian Tern, Sterna caspia, Pallas. 



1. One shot at Yarmouth, in the Norwich Museum; another shot 

 there Oct. 1825 (Paget Y., 12); the latter was an immature specimen, 

 and was in possession of Mr. G. Thurtell of Eaton near Norwich 

 (Lombe's MS~ notes in Bewick, see also his note in Mont. Diet, where he 

 gives 1826 as the date ; the same bird ?); one shot near Yarmouth 

 about 1839 (in Mr. J. H. Gurney's Collection). A male shot on Breydon 

 June 1850(Bury Museum, DennisMS. note in the Museum, C. B. !) ; an adult 

 specimen (sex unknown) shot there July 16, 1850 ; one or two others said 

 to have been seen about the same time (J. H. Gurney in i?. 2915); 

 a fine adult male, in full summer plumage shot at Yarmouth in Aug. 

 1851 (in Mr. J. H. Gurney's Collection, id. in Z. 3235), another adult 

 male killed on Breydon May 2, 1862 (H. Stevenson in Z. 8093, J. H. 

 Gurney, jun., in litt). 



2. Has been obtained at Aldeburgh, a specimen killed there is in the 

 Cambridge Museum (Jenyns, Vert. An., 265; Harting, Handbook, 167). 



White-Winged Blace Teen, Sterna leacoptera, Meisner 



and Sckinz. 

 1. Mr. Booth killed four birds at one shot, out of a flock of five, on 

 Breydon May 26, 1871; two were males and two females in full summer 

 plumage ; they were preserved by Gunn (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd. S. 

 2830, Booth, Gat. B. 161-2). 



Gull-Billed Tern, Sterna anglica, Montagu. 

 1. A male taken on Breydon, April 14, 1849 (Bury St. Edmund's 

 Museum, Dennis MS. notes in Tarrell, C.B. !); a fine adult male shot on 

 Breydon July 31, 1849 (J. H. Gurney in Z. 2569 and J. Smith in Z. 

 2653); two adults, male and female, at Yarmouth, Sept. 1, 1849 (J. H. 

 Gurney in Z. 2592); a fine male in full breeding plumage killed at the 

 same place May 24, 1850 {id. in Z. 2853); and another in July 1851 

 {id. in Z. 3235); two killed at Yarmouth May 8, 1878, one, a female, 

 preserved (T. E. Gunn in Z. 3rd S. vol. iv., p. 53). 



Sabine's Gull, Larus Sabini (Leach). 



1. Two immature specimens, male and female, shot on Breydon, 

 Oct. 17 and 22, 1881; one in possession of Mr. Connop of Caister, 

 near Yarmouth, the other in that of Mr. Stevenson (H. Stevenson in Z. 

 3rd S. vol. vi., p. Ill, and vii., p. 319, and J. H. Gurney, jun., in litt., 

 C. B. !). 



An inhabitant of the Arctic regions of Asia and 

 America ; a rare straggler to the Northern portions of 

 Europe (Dresser B. of Eur. viii., 338). 



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