LESSER TERJS, 



LITTLE TEEN. 



Sterna minuta, LINNAEUS. PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" BEWICK. FLEMING. SELBY. 



" " JENYNS. GOULD. 



metopoleucos, GMELIN. 



Sterna ? Minuta Minute small. 



THE Little Tern, in Europe, is found on the coasts of 

 Holland, France, Holstein, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and 

 Russia; also a few in Germany. In America they range from 

 the States to the Gulf of Mexico. In Africa, along the western 

 shores and in the Canary Islands. In Asia, in India, Siberia, 

 and in the neighbourhood of the Black Sea and the Caspian 

 Sea. 



This species, 'La Petite Hirondelle-de-Mer,' is common on 

 the coast of Norfolk. In the county of York, specimens 

 have been procured near Huddersfield, at Ecclesfield, near 

 Sheffield, and not unfrequently near Barnsley; also, naturally 

 on the coast. In Cornwall, one was obtained at Mount's 

 Bay, April 16th., 1852. They have been likewise noticed 

 on the coasts of Essex and Suffolk. 



It occurs at uncertain intervals, as I have been informed 

 by Mr. Thomas Thorncroft, in the neighbourhood of Shore- 

 ham; two were shot by him there in May, 1850; seven or 

 eight appeared in May, 1853, near Brighthampton, Oxford- 

 shire; others near Oxford, two April 23rd., 1853. One was 

 seen by the Revs. Andrew and Henry Matthews, in June, 

 1846, flying about the margin of the lake in Kirtlington 

 Park, near Weston-on-the-Green. In Cambridgeshire one, a 



