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THE BIRDS OF ESSEX. 



Order GAVI^. 



Family LARIDi^. 



Arctic Tern : Sterna macrura. Locally, " Sea Swallow." 

 An uncommon passing migrant in spring and autumn. 



Mr. Baxter has a pair shot by himself in 1880, one near Tilbury, the other off 

 the Nore Sands. Mr. Kerry shot an immature specimen at Stony Point, in Sept., 

 1889, and Mr. A. H. Smee shot a young male in the Lower Hope on Oct 3rd, 

 1867 (34- 10^7). 



Common Tern : Sterna fliiviatilis. Locally, " Sea Swal- 

 low." 



An uncommon summer visitor, which used to breed on our 

 coast, but does not now do so. 



.^^ Mr. Clarke re- 



^_. i;==^=7 -^' ^^^i^--- cords (24) one at 



_*^6sffiSss^|fc "-';. Haverhill in 1830. 



Edward Double- 

 da}', in 1835, says 

 (15) that a speci- 

 men had been 

 killed whilst " fly- 

 ing over some 

 large gravel pits 

 [near Epping] 

 which were full of 

 water." King, in 

 1838, says (20) : 

 " These elegant 

 birds are not un- 

 frequently seen 

 during summer, 

 flitting over the 

 bed of our river 

 and following its 

 windings." On 

 Aug. 2ist, 1883, a 

 young bird of the year was found in a very exhausted condition in a ditch at 

 Farnham, having probably been driven inland by a gale (T. J. Mann — 29. Sept., 

 15). At Harwich, it is "not common" (Kerry). Mr. Jonathan Grubb wrote 



(23. 75SI):— 



" On November sth [i860], I saw some Terns (the species not known) flying 



COM.MON TERN, SUini/lCy, 



