GULL-BILLED TERN. 515 



AM TA TOliES. LA RIDJE. 





THE GULL-BILLED TERN. 



Sterna Anglica. 



Sterna Anglica, Gvtt-Ulled Tern, MONTAGU, Supp. Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 219. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 1 43. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 480. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 269. 



EYTON, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 97. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. vii. 



Hirondelle de mer hansel, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 744. 



THIS species was first made known by Colonel Montagu, 

 who gave a figure and description of it in the Supplement 

 to his Ornithological Dictionary, published in the year 

 1813; one specimen was shot by himself in Sussex, and 

 he saw two others that had been killed at Eye. The birds 

 obtained were at first confounded with the Sandwich Tern, 

 but the form and length of the bill in the two birds, which 

 are quite different, soon led Montagu to a just appreciation 



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