296 STERNA ANGLICA.—S. MINUTA. 
[§ 4404. Eighteen.—Marisma of Andalusia, 1863. From Lord 
Lilford, 1884. 
In the text to his ‘ Coloured Figures’ (vii. p. 10) Lord Lilford wrote :—“ In 
Spain the Gull-billed Tern breeds not only on the sandy sea-shores, but also 
in very great numbers upon the islets left in the ‘ Marisma’ of the Guadal- 
quivir by the subsidence of the winter floods.” | 
[§ 4405. Zwo.—Island of Warba, Persian Gulf, 3 April, 1878. 
From Capt. Butler, through Mr. Howard Saunders, 
1879. 
Mr. Eugene Oates (Hume’s ‘Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds,’ ed. 2, ii. 
p. 305) quotes Colonel Butler as writing:—‘‘On the 3rd April, 1878, Mr. 
Huskisson, Telegraph Department, at my request kindly sent a boat to the 
island of Warba, in the Kore Abdulla at the head of the Persian Gulf, and 
procured a fine series of the eggs of this species. There were two species of 
Terns breeding in separate colonies in different parts of the island, viz. Sterna 
caspia and the present species. In each case the nests which were very 
abundant, were built about a foot apart and consisted of a small mound of 
sand scraped together by the birds, from 3 to 5 inches high, with small twigs 
and sticks laid on the top for the eggs to rest upon. Most of the nests 
contained three eggs, all more or less incubated.” ] 
-STERNA MINUTA, Linnzus. 
LITTLE TERN. 
§ 4406. Zwo.—England? Not later than 1843. 
§ 4407. Two.—Tangier. From M. Favier, through Mr. 
Williams, 1847. 
§ 4408. Mae.—Blakeney, Norfolk, 1851. From Dr. Frere. 
§ 4409. Onxe.—England? From Mr. W. Felkin. 
[§ 4410. Onve—England? From Mr. R. Reynolds, before 
1848. | 
