170 EAEE VISITANTS. 



Islands, and Australia. Also Ascension Island, where it 

 breeds in some numbers *. 



One, Tutbury, near Burton-oD -Trent, 1853 : Brown, Zoolo- 

 gist, 1853, p. 3755 ; Sir Oswald Moseley, Nat. Hist. Tut- 

 bury, p. 110. In the collection of Mr. H. W. Desvoeux. 



One on the Thames, near Wallingford, Berks, 21st June, 

 1869: Harting, The Field, 26th June, 1869; Zoologist, 

 1869, p. 1867. In the possession of Mr. Franklyn. This 

 bird was brought to me for examination shortly after it 

 was killed, and before it was skinned. 



One on the estuary of the Axe, near Axminster : Rev. J. B. 

 Selwood, The Field, 17th July, 1869. It is doubtful 

 whether this may not . have been Sterna fissipes. The 

 death of Mr. Selwood has unfortunately prevented a solu- 

 tion of the doubt. 



NODDY TEEN. Sterna stolida, Linnseus. 



Hob. Central America, West-India Islands, South-Sea 

 Islands, and Australia. 

 Two between Wexford and Dublin : Thompson, Trans. Linn. 



Soc. 1835 ; Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds), vol. iii. p. 308. 

 One, co. Dublin : Blake Knox, Zoologist, 1866, p. 306. 



Obs. This species has been recorded as " a summer 

 visitant to St. George's Channel " (cf. Austin, Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. vol. ix. p. 435) ; but doubtless Sterna 



fissipes is the species intended. 



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GULL-BILLED TEEN. Sterna anglica, Montagu. 

 Hab. Europe, North Africa, and America. 



One, Sussex: Montagu, Orn. Diet. Suppl. 1813f. Type in 

 Col. Montagu's collection in the British Museum. 

 * For a description of this breeding-place, cf. Sperling, ' Ibis/ 



1868, pp. 286-288. 



f " Others have been killed about llye " (Montagu, 7. c.). 



