COMMON TERN. 



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STERNA FLUVIATILIS, Naumann.* 



THE COMMON TERN. 



Sterna hirundo. 



THE COMMON TEBN is deservedly so named as regards the 

 greater part of the British Islands, although in the Shet- 

 lands it is superseded by its congener the Arctic Tern. It 

 breeds, however, in the southern districts of the Orkneys ; 

 also in the Hebrides and in several localities on the west 

 coast and lochs of Scotland, from Sutherlandshire to the 

 Solway; also along the east coast, at Buddon-ness, Tay- 

 mouth, and many other places. Down to the Fame Islands 

 on the one side, and to the coast of Lancashire on the other, 



* Isis, 1819, p. 1847. It appears from the description given by Linnaeus of 

 his Sterna hirundo and the localities which it frequented, that he did not dis- 

 tinguish the Common from the Arctic Tern. Naumann was the first to do this, 

 and his names are therefore employed for both species. 



