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keeper at Horsey, near Yarmouth. I saw this specimen 

 on the 21st of May, and can state therefore that it was 

 truly an example of the White-winged Black Tern. 



M. Temminck says, " this White-winged Tern inhabits 

 the bays and inlets of the shores of the Mediterranean, and 

 is very common about Gibraltar ; it visits also the lakes, 

 rivers, and marshes of the countries in the vicinity of the 

 Alps ; is very common about the lakes of Lucarno, Lu- 

 gano, Como, Isco, and Guarda ; and is occasionally seen on 

 the Lake of Geneva." It is included by Dr. Schinz in 

 his Fauna Helvetica, and has been procured in France and 

 Belgium. M. Brehm includes it in his work on the Birds 

 of Germany, page 796, and M. Nilsson has given a very 

 good figure of this species in the illustrations to his Fauna 

 of Scandinavia, plate 121 ; M. Savi includes it in his 

 Birds of Italy, vol. iii. page 83 ; and M. Malherbe says 

 that it appears in Sicily in spring, and is seen from Lake 

 Lenteni to the environs of Catania and Syracuse, but is 

 more rare in the northern part of the island. Mr. H. M. 

 Drummond observed a few of this species on the river be- 

 tween the lakes at Biserta, about forty miles to the west- 

 ward of Tunis, as recorded in the Annals of Natural His- 

 tory for August, 1845. M. Temminck also mentions that 

 this Tern is common in spring in Dalmatia, but does not 

 breed there, and was gone by July. 



This species is not included in the lists of the birds of 

 Corfu, Crete, Smyrna, or Tripoli, to which I have so fre- 

 quently had the advantage of referring, but Keith Abbott, 

 Esq. sent a specimen from Trebizond to the Zoological 

 Society in 1834. I do not find the name of this species 

 in any of the lists of the birds of India, of China, or Japan 

 to which I have access. 



The food of this Tern consists principally of dragon-flies, 

 and other winged aquatic insects. Neither the eggs, nor 



