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QA VIM. 



LARIDJS. 



LAR1VJE. 



STERNA CASPIA, Pallas.* 



THE CASPIAN TERN. 



Sterna caspia. 



SEVERAL specimens of this fine large Tern, called the 

 Caspian Tern, from the locality in which it was obtained by 

 Pallas, have been killed on the English coast, particu- 

 larly in the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk. Two early 

 examples are those mentioned by the Messrs. Paget, in their 

 Sketch of the Natural History of Yarmouth and its neigh- 

 bourhood, one of which was killed in October, 1825 ; another 

 was presented to the Norwich Museum, by the Rev. Gr. Steward 

 of Caistor, near which place it was shot. Three or four 

 were seen at Aldborough, in Suffolk, one of which was 

 shot, and preserved in the Museum of the Philosophical 

 Society of Cambridge, as mentioned by the Rev. L. Jenyns 

 (Man. Brit. Verteb. p. 265). The late Mr. Heysham sent the 



* Nov. Comm. Petrop. xiv. p. 582 (1769-70). 



