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LAR1DJE. 



STERNA DOUGALLI, Montagu.* 

 THE ROSEATE TERN. 



Sterna Dougallii. 



THE ROSEATE TEEN was first discovered on two small rocky 

 islands, called the Cumbraes, in the Firth of Clyde, in 1812, 

 by Dr. McDougall, of Glasgow, who sent a specimen and 

 particulars to Colonel Montagu, from which a figure and 

 description were inserted in the Supplement to his Ornitho- 

 logical Dictionary. Some years ago Selby found a numerous 

 colony breeding on the Fame Islands, but that locality had 

 been nearly abandoned for a long time, until in 1880 several 

 pairs returned to their old haunts in the month of May, when 



* Sterna Dougallii, Montagu, Supp. Orn. Diet. (1813). This species has not 

 unfrequently been designated S. paradisea, Briinnich, but any one who will take 

 the trouble of referring to that author's description, will at once see that he was 

 entirely unacquainted with the Roseate, and alluded to the Arctic Tern. 



