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of the specific distinctions, and he called it S. Anglica, be- 

 cause it was not known to him as existing elsewhere. 

 I have heard of two examples killed in this country, both 

 in 1839 ; one in Kent, in the month of June, but of the 

 other I have unfortunately mislaid the letter which con- 

 tained the particulars. One has lately been taken near 

 Leeds, and was noticed at the York meeting of the British 

 Association. According to M. Vieillot it has been taken 

 in Picardy, and on the coast of the Channel. M. Tem- 

 minck says it is common in Hungary, and the confines 

 of Turkey, and was included by M. Savigny among the 

 Birds of Egypt. This species appears to have a most 

 extensive geographical range. M. Temminck says he 

 received a specimen killed in the United States, and two 

 others from Brazil ; these last were killed there by Prince 

 Neuwied, and they did not either of them differ from those 

 obtained on the lakes of Hungary. Mr. Selby says, 

 " Upon investigating specimens from North America, I 

 feel no hesitation in considering the Marsh Tern of Wil- 

 son's North- American Ornithology to be the same bird." 

 Mr. Audubon also says, " Having taken six specimens of 

 the American Marsh Tern to the British Museum, and 

 minutely compared them in all their details with the 

 specimens of the Gull-billed Tern, which formed part of 

 the collection of Colonel Montagu, and were procured in 

 the South of England, I found them to agree so perfectly 

 that no doubt remained with me of the identity of the 

 bird described by Wilson with that first distinguished by 

 the English Ornithologist." Colonel Sykes, in his published 

 account of the Birds of India, collected by himself, says of 

 this species, my " specimens correspond exactly with speci- 

 mens of this rare British Bird in the British Museum." 

 Mr. Blyth has obtained this species at Calcutta. 



