544 LARID^E. 



of Elveden Hall, Thetford, that this species has occurred 

 once in Germany. Dr. Naumann, in the fourth page of 

 the preface to the twelfth, and last volume, of his Birds 

 of Germany, mentions one killed at Proedel, near Magde- 

 burgh. 



This is the only other.specimen taken in Europe, as far 

 as I can ascertain. 



The Sooty Tern, a bird of great powers of flight, is 

 also known to have a very wide geographical range, as we 

 learn by the various localities to be hereafter quoted. 

 Wilson mentions having seen this species when passing 

 along the northern shores of Cuba, and the coasts of 

 Florida and Georgia. Dr. Nuttall also names Georgia 

 and Florida. This bird visits Bermuda in autumn and 

 winter. "Wilson, quoting Captain Cook's voyage, vol. i. 

 p. 275, says this bird has been met with 100 leagues from 

 shore, and often settles on the rigging of ships. Pennant 

 says it swarms in the Isle of Ascension : it was found at 

 Christmas Island. Dampier speaks of it as a bird of 

 New Holland, and it is said to be common on the islands 

 of the South Seas. 



. Mr. Gould includes it in his great work on the Birds 

 of Australia, and some notice of its habits there from the 

 pen of one of his collectors, Mr. Gilbert, who was un- 

 fortunately killed in a skirmish with a party of the 

 natives, appears in the history of the Noddy Tern, which 

 in the present volume immediately precedes this account 

 of the Sooty Tern : both these species frequently breed- 

 ing in the same localities. 



Mr. Audubon, in his Birds of America, says, <c On 

 landing at Bird Key, one of the Tortugas, I felt for a 

 moment as if the birds would raise me from the ground, 

 so thick were they all round, and so quick the motion of 

 their wings. Their cries were indeed deafening, yet not 



