t>5o THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



noticed annually up to the year 1898, though in smaller 

 numbers. 



The only local name is Frenchman, in use at Bridlington ; 

 though, as remarked above, it was stated by Willughby to have 

 been called Scare Crow. 



WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN. 

 Hydrochelidon leucoptera (Schinz). 



Casual visitant from southern Europe, of extremely rare occurrence. 



This species breeds in central and south-east Europe, 

 northern Africa, Abyssinia, and Asia, and in winter is found 

 in eastern Asia and north Australia. 



Yorkshire can claim three examples of this rare and 

 elegant bird : 



The first was obtained in 1860, near Scalby Mills, Scar- 

 borough (Tindall MS.), and formed part of the collection 

 of the late Ed. Tindall, which is now in the Scarborough 

 Philosophical Society's Museum. 



At Flamborough, one, a mature bird, was seen for some 

 days in the spring of 1867, but was not procured (J. Cordeaux, 

 Zool. 1867, p. ion ; " Birds of Humber District," p. 197). 



At Scarborough a specimen was shot on 26th September 

 1896 (W. J. Clarke, Zool. 1896, p. 387).* 



* The example, now in the Newcastle Museum, which was purchased 

 at Mr. Oxley's sale at Redcar in 1871 (Nat. 1887, p. 77), was killed by 

 G. Mussell in the marsh at Port Clarence, on the north side of the Tees, 

 on isth May 1869 (cf. Hancock's " Birds of Northd. and Dm." p. 143). 



