104 . THE BIRDS OF DORSET. 



SANDWICH TERN. Sterna cantiaca, Gmelin. 



Yarrell, iii. p. 540; Harting, p. 76; Dresser, viii. p. 301; 

 Seebohm, iii. p. 272 ; Ibis List, p. 183. 



The Sandwich Tern is a spring and autumn 

 visitant, but does not breed with us, though pos- 

 sibly it may have done so formerly, as in Kent and 

 Sussex. Mr. Pike informs me that he always sees 

 some in April on the buoys of the Bar Channel at 

 Poole, and that they return in August. Mr. Thompson 

 says several are seen in the neighbourhood of Wey- 

 mouth during the months of April, September, and 

 October; one shot at Poole in 1839 ; a female bird 

 shot on the Chesil Bank had well-developed eggs 

 in the ovary, May 12, 1855; one was sn t on the 

 Wareham river by Mr. T. M. Pike, July 1872 ; two 

 were procured in Poole harbour, September 12, 1877, 

 and another in September 1885. Several have been 

 seen from time to time at Christchurch in the months 

 of April and September. 



EOSEATE TERN. Sterna dougdli, Montagu. 



Yarrell, iii. p. 544; Harting, p. 76; Dresser, viii. p. 273; 

 Seebohm, iii. p. 277 ; Ibis List, p. 181. 



The Koseate Tern is a rare summer visitant. It 

 breeds on some of the islands off the north-west 

 coast of France ; formerly also off the coasts of 

 Lancashire and Northumberland, and possibly in 

 the Hebrides. Mr. Thompson noted its occurrence 

 at Poole in 1841 ; and on one occasion, before the 



