WHISKERED TERN. 



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 LARJD^E. 



HYDROCHELIDON HYBBIDA (Pallas*). 

 THE WHISKERED TERN. 



Sterna leucopareia. 



THE earliest discovery of the occurrence in the British 

 Islands of this straggler from the south, was made by the 

 late Mr. T. C. Heysham, of Carlisle. At the end of August, 

 1836, a party of two or three persons went out in a boat from 

 Lyme, to amuse themselves in shooting sea-birds, and this 

 Tern, among others, was part of the produce of their guns. 

 Mr. Heysham shortly afterwards having an opportunity of 

 examining the skins of the birds obtained, selected that of 

 the Whiskered Tern here figured, and made the arrangement 

 by which the Author became possessed of it. 



In September, 1839, a second example was obtained at 



* Sterna hybrida, Pallas, Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, ii. p. 338 (1811). The 

 name of H. leucopareia (Natterer), which is often applied to it, was not con- 

 ferred until 1820. 



