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COMMON TERN. 



GREATEE TEEN. SEA SWALLOW. GULL TEASER. 



Sterna hirundo, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



" " FLEMING. SELBY. JENYNS. 



" " GOULD. YARRELL. 



" major, BRISSON. 



Hirundo marina, RAY. WILLOUGHBY. 



Sterna ? Hirundo A Swallow 



IT would appear that this species is not so common as 

 is imported by its name, other kinds having been confounded 

 with it in the first instance. 



It visits Germany, France, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, 

 Italy, and the Mediterranean, from Norway, Spitzbergen, and 

 other places of the north. In Asia it is seen, Asia Minor; 

 and in Africa on the west coast, in Madeira, and the .Canary 

 Islands. In America, in Greenland and about Hudson's 

 Bay, and so southwards to New England and other parts. 



In Cornwall it occurs about Gwyllyn Vase, Swanpool, 

 and Falmouth, but is not common there, though generally 

 elsewhere. It is however not unfrequently seen quite inland, 

 as in Oxfordshire, especially in the spring months. In 

 Worcestershire one, a young bird, was shot near Worcester, 

 on the banks of the Eiver Severn, in October, 1846. In 

 Monmouthshire another, also a young one, was obtained on 

 the 12th. of the same month; others were seen. Some large 

 flocks had occurred a few years before. In Surrey this bird 

 has been frequently shot at Frensham Pond, near Godalming. 

 Two at Chertsey, October 6th., 1846. One was killed at 

 Bushy Park, and others nearly forty miles up the Thames. 



It is very common on the Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and 

 Norfolk coasts. Specimens, too, have occurred inland in the 

 first-named county, at Leeds, though rarely, Huddersfield, 



