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SANDWICH TERN. 



STEIATED TERN, (YOUNG.) 



Sterna fioysii, PENNANT. FLEMING. SELBY, 



" Cantiaca, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



<* " JENYNS. GOULD. 



Sterna ? Boysii Of Boys. 



THIS Tern has received its Latin name from that of Dr. 

 Boys, its first discoverer; and its English one from Sand- 

 wich, in Kent, the place where it then occurred. 



It is more or less common in various parts of Europe 

 Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Holland, and Friesland, 

 France, Switzerland, Italy, and along the shores of the 

 Mediterranean. In Africa, it has been found at the Cape; 

 and in North America from Texas and Charleston to Florida; 

 and in South America, in Mexico and Brazil. In Asia, in 

 Kamtschatka; also, in New Zealand. 



In Yorkshire, the Sandwich Tern has occurred near 

 Huddersfield; in Derbyshire, occasionally near Melbourne. 

 In Cornwall, it has been met with about Swan pool, Fal- 

 mouth, but is rare; also in Devonshire, Sussex, Suffolk, and 

 Durham; in Norfolk, it is not uncommon about Yarmouth, 

 one was shot at Hunstanton, September 6th., 1851. In 

 Oxfordshire it has been killed on Otmoor and near Oxford, 

 the latter specimen on the 24th. of August, 1847; three or 

 four others were shot near Oxford, on the Isis, April 23rd., 

 1853. 



In Ireland, the species occurs as an occasional straggler. 



In Scotland, it has been noticed in Sutherlandshire and 

 on the Frith of Forth, the Isle of May, and the Berwick- 

 shire coast. 



