ROSEATE TERN. 



NATATORES. 



501 

 LAR1DM. 



THE ROSEATE TERN. 



Sterna Dougallii. 



Sterna Dougallii^ Roseate Tern, MONTAGU, Suppl. Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 414. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 143. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 270. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 265. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. x. 

 Ilirondette de mer Dougall, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 738. 



THE ROSEATE TERN was first discovered on two small 

 rocky islands, called Cumbray, in the Firth of Clyde, by 

 Dr. Macdougall of Glasgow, who sent a specimen and 

 particulars to Colonel Montagu, from which a figure and 

 description were inserted in the Supplement to his Ornitho- 

 logical Dictionary, published in 1813. Since that period 

 this species has been found breeding at various stations 

 frequented by other Terns, and is ascertained to be, like 



