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NATATORES. 



LARHL. 



THE GULL-BILLED TERN. 



Sterna anglica. 



Sterna Anglica, Gull-billed Tern, MONTAGU, Supp. Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 219. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 143. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 480. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 269. 



EYTON, Rarer Brit. Birds, p. 97. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Hirondelle de mer TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 744. 



THIS species was first made known by Colonel Montagu, 

 who gave a figure and description of it in the Supplement 

 to his Ornithological Dictionary, published in the year 

 1813 ; one specimen was shot by himself in Sussex, and 

 he saw two others that had been killed at Rye. The birds 

 obtained were at first confounded with the Sandwich Tern, 

 but the form and length of the bill in the two birds, which 

 are quite different, soon led Montagu to a just apprecia- 

 tion of the specific distinctions, and he called it S. Anglica , 



