NA TA TORES. 



WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN. 



527 

 LARID^E. 



THE WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN. 



Sterna leucoptera. 



Sterna leucoptera^ White-winged Tern, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xi. 



Hirondelle de mere leucoptere, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 747 



,, vol. iv. p. 463. 



THE first notice of this handsome species, new to the 

 History of British Birds, was published by Mr. Frederick 

 M'Coy in the Annals of Natural History, vol. xv, page 

 271, and the following is the account there made known. 

 " Sterna leucoptera^ TEMM. A specimen of this beautiful 

 Tern was shot by J. Hill, Esq. on the Shannon, in 1841, 

 in company with the Black Tern, S. nigra, with which it 

 was confounded ; the specimen was sent along with one of 

 the latter species to the Natural History Society of Dublin, 

 in whose museum they are now preserved ; but from their 

 general resemblance to each other, the present species has 

 remained there undistinguished till the present time. As 



