168 RARE VISITANTS. 



One, Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, 17th May, 1853 : Footit, 



Zoologist, 1853, p. 3946; Yarrell, op. cit. 

 One near Yarmouth, May 1862 : Stevenson, Zoologist, 1862, 



p. 8093. 

 One, Christchurch, Hants : Wise, New Forest, p. 317 ; 



Gurney, Zoologist, 1869, p. 1512. 



SWIFT TEEN. Sterna velox, Eiippell. 



Hob. North-western, Northern, and North-eastern Africa. 



One between Dublin and Howth, Dec. 1846. 



Two seen same time : Thompson, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. xx. 

 p. 170; Zoologist, 1847, p. 1878; Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds), 

 vol. iii. p. 266; Blake Knox, Zoologist, 1866, p. 305. 



Obs. This species appears to have been accidentally 

 omitted from the last (3rd) edition of Yarrell' s 

 ' History of British Birds,' since it was recorded to 

 have been procured in Ireland long before that edition 

 was published. Some interesting remarks on its 

 habits, nesting, &c. may be found in ' The Ibis,' 1860, 

 p. 127, and 1864, p. 337. 



WHISKERED TERN. Sterna kybrida, Pallas. 

 Hab. Southern Europe, India, and North Africa. 



One, Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, August 1836 : Yarrell, Hist. 



Brit. Birds, vol. iii. p. 517*. 

 One, Dublin Bay, Sept. 1839 : Thompson, Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. vol. xx. p. 170; Zoologist, 1847, p. 1878; Nat. Hist. 



Irel. (Birds), vol. iii. p. 298; Blake Knox, Zoologist, 1866, 



p. 306. 



* Mr. Yarrell says (1. c.), " five examples have occurred in Britain 

 in the last six or seven years ; " but he only gives particulars of 

 one. 



