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NATATORES. 



LARIDjE. 



LARWJE. 



THE WHISKERED TERN. 



Sterna leucopareia. 



Sterna leucoparcia, Moustache Tern, GOULD, Birds of Eiirope, pt. xviii. 



HirondeUe de mer inoustac, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith vol. ii. p. 746. 



Delamotte, ,, ,, de la Motte , VIEILL. Faun. Framj. p. 402. 



I AM indebted to the kindness and discrimination of T. 

 C. Heysham, Esq. of Carlisle, for the advantage of insert- 

 ing this species, new to the British catalogue, and of rare 

 occurrence even on the European continent. At the end 

 of August, 1836, a party of two or three persons went out 

 in a boat from Lyrne, to amuse themselves with shooting 

 sea-birds, and this Tern, among others, was part of the 

 produce of their guns. Mr. Heysham shortly afterwards 

 had an opportunity of examining the skins of the birds 

 obtained, selected that of the Whiskered Tern here figured 



