ROSEATE TERN 



PLATE CCXIV. 

 Sterna dougallii, . MONTAGU. BEWICK. FLEMING. 



'TPHIS summer visitant is said to be rapidly disappear- 

 1 ing. It used to breed in certain localities on the 

 Scotch and Irish coasts ; these stations are now deserted, 

 but the bird itself has been found on the Norfolk coast as 

 recently as 1880. 



This species makes no nest, but lays its eggs on banks 

 of sand on the bare ground itself. 



The eggs are two or three in number ; the ground 

 colour yellowish cream-white, pale brown, or yellowish olive- 

 green, spotted and speckled with grey and brown. 



