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Fam. PELECANID^E. 



COEMOEANT. Graculus carlo (Linnaeus). 



Resident and generally distributed, but most nume- 

 rous on the northern and western coasts. 



SHAGr. Graculus cristatus (Faber). 



Resident, but not so numerous as the last named, 

 except perhaps on the northern and western isles of 

 Scotland. 



GANNET. Sula bassana (Linnseus). 



Resident. The breeding-stations are : Lundy Is- 

 land in the British Channel ; Ailsa Craig, off Ayr- 

 shire ; St. Kilda, in the Outer Hebrides ; Suliskerry, 

 to the west of Hoy, in Orkney ; and the Bass Rock, 

 in the Firth of Forth. 



Fam. LARID^E. 



COMMON TEEN. Sterna fluviatilis, Naumann. 



A summer visitant, and generally distributed. This 

 bird has generally been regarded as the Sterna hirundo 

 of Linnseus ; but the species described by him under 

 that name is evidently the Arctic Tern, as may be 

 inferred from his description of the bill : " rostrum 

 subulatum, versus apicem compressum, rectum, coc- 

 cineum, uti et pedes." 



