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America, ranging far south to the Weddell sea, where it is 

 common at 74 S. latitude. It was probably this species 

 which was met with by McCormick in Ross' sea, off Victoria 

 Land, 7652'S. 



Sterna dougalli. ROSEATE TERN. 



Sterna dougallii Montagu, On. Diet. Suppl. 1813, fig. 

 [no pagination] : Scotland. 



Sterna dougalli Mont. B. O. U. List, 1st eel. 1883, p. 181 ; 

 Saunders, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. 1896, p. 70 ; id. Manual, 

 2nd ed. 1899, p. 645. 



Dougalli, in honour of Dr. MacDougull, of Glasgow, who first sent a specimen 

 and description to Montagu in 1812. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Summer Visitor, 

 breeding very locally ; a few pairs annually nest on the 

 Fame Islands, Northumberland, and colonies occur on certain 

 islets off north AVales and on the coast of Ireland. Some 

 pairs breed on the coast of Morayshire and a few elsewhere 

 from time to time. From its former breeding-grounds on 

 the Scilly Islands, the Lancashire coast, and the Cumbraes in 

 the Firth of Clyde it has now disappeared. 



General Distribution. The Roseate Tern breeds locally on 

 the North sea coasts and on those of the Atlantic from 

 about 57 N. latitude to the Mediterranean, the A/ores, 

 Madeira, the coasts of Africa, Madagascar, the Mascarene 

 Islands, Ceylon, the Andamans, Tenasserim, and south 

 China, wandering north to the Lucbu Islands ; it also 

 breeds in Australia, except the south, and in New Caledonia, 

 ranging to the Loyalty and Solomon Islands; likewise 

 in North America, from Sable Island to Long Island 

 and southwards to the Bahamas, the Lesser Antilles, 

 and Venezuela. In the more northern parts of its range 

 it is a summer visitor only. Several races have been 

 recognised. 



