WHISKERED TERN. 



NAT A TORES. 



517 



LARID^. 



THE WHISKERED TERN. 



Sterna leucopareia. 



Sterna leucopareia, Moustache Tern, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Hirondelle de mer TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 746. 



inoustac, 



Delamotte, Hirondelle de mer VIEILL. Faun. Fran<j. p. 402. 

 de la Motte, 



I AM indebted to the kindness and discrimination of T. 

 C. Heysham, Esq., of Carlisle, for the advantage of insert- 

 ing this species, new to the British catalogue, and of rare 

 occurrence even on the European continent. At the end 

 of August, 1836, a party of two or three persons went out 

 in a boat from Lyme, to amuse themselves with shooting 

 sea-birds, and this Tern, among others, was part of the 

 produce of their guns. Mr. Heysham shortly afterwards 

 having an opportunity of examining the skins of the birds 



