288 STERNA NIGRA. 
shire, whence Mr. Hewitson says (Brit. Ool. text to pl. xlviii.) he was supplied 
with “a large series of the eggs” of this bird by Mr. Salmon, who was there 
19 May, 1882 (ef. Stevenson and Southwell, Birds of Norfolk, iii. p. 314).] 
§ 4367. Two.—Helland, 1851. From Mr. Alfred Newton. 
[These eggs, with others (§ 4876), were sent to me direct by Arnold Bots. ] 
§ 4368. Mine.—Holland, 1852. From Mr. Green. 
These I saw quite fresh at Green’s ; they are from the other side 
of the water. 
§ 4369. One.—Feltwell Fen, Norfolk, 8 June, 1853. From 
Mr. Newcome, 1854. 
One of eight eggs out of three nests brought to Mr. Newcome, of 
Hockwold, by one Ketteringham, of Feltwell, who stated that he 
found the three nests near together in the Southery Fen district. 
He called them Starns, the Norfolk name of this Tern. About 
Peterborough they are called Blue Dowar’. The great floods of that 
year (1853) were then subsiding. Both Mr. Newcome and Mr. 
Alfred Newton had observed the six birds about the fen. The eggs 
were brought to Mr. Newcome unblown, and Mr. Newton has one 
egg from each of the nests [§ 4377], which were somewhat unlike 
one another. Mr. Newcome has some of the eggs in a case with a 
pair of the birds which were shot in the fen in the same spring. 
The Black Tern had, until a few years previously, been constantly 
in the habit of breeding in vast numbers in this fen. Its eggs were 
used by the fenmen as nest-eggs for Lapwings and Redshanks. 
[ Cf. Stevenson and Southwell, B. Norf. ui. p. 313.) 
§ 4370. Zwenty.—Fora, Gland, 6 June, 1856. 
Found by myself between Ormoga and Fora. There were from 
one to three eggs in the nests, all nearly fresh. Of the first I saw 
1 [More commonly written Blue Darr, which, I suppose, means Blue Daw; but 
this was rather the name in East Norfolk. In Lincolnshire, and one would think 
also near Peterborough, the bird was the Carr-Swallow or Carr-Crow, miswritten 
sometimes, as by Willughby (Orn. p. 269 Lat.; p. 853 Engl.), on Johnson’s 
authority, Scare-crow !—Ep. ] 
