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WHISKERED TERN. 



Sierna leucopareia, GOULD. TfiMMlNOK. 



" Dclamotte, VIEILLOT. 



Sterna ? Leucop tia. Leucos White. 



Pareion The chee *. 



THE Tern thus denominated has, in Europe, been noticed 

 in France and Italy, Hungary, Germany, and Dalmatia; in 

 Africa, in Egypt; and in Asia, in Syria and Borneo. 



In England, the occurrence of the first specimen was near 

 Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, the end of August, 1836. The 

 fact was placed on record by T. C. Heysham, Esq., of Car- 

 lisle, and his name goes down to posterity in connection 

 with it; as do those of other observers in like instances: 

 'dikaion gar autois, kai prepon de ama, on to toiode, ten 

 timen tauten tes mnemes didosthai,' as Thucydides used to 

 have it. A second was shot on Heigham sands, Norfolk, 

 on the 19th. of June, 1847, so P. Hansell, Esq. informed 

 me. One, a female in adult plumage, is recorded in the 

 'Zoologist,' page 1820, by J. H. Grurney and W. R. Fisher, 

 Esqrs., to have been shot while flying over Hickling Broad, 

 Yarmouth, on the 17th. of that month: I conclude that one 

 and the same specimen is intended. 



In Ireland, another was obtained on the River Liffey, near 

 Dublin, in the month of September, 1839. 



Male; length, eleven inches and a half; bill, red, inclining 

 to dark brown towards the tip; from its base a streak of 

 white goes backwards below the eye, and gives the bird the 

 name it has hence received. Iris, brownish black. Forehead, 

 crown, neck on the back, and nape, black, in winter white, 

 a black spot being left behind the eye; chin and throat, 

 greyish white; breast, dark grey, paler in winter; back, dark 

 grey, paler in winter. 



