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BLACK TEEN. 



Sterna nifjra, LlNN^US. FLEMING. SELB*. 



Jutipe*, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Viraiva nigra, LEACH. STEPHENS. 



Sterna ? Nigra Black. 



THE present species occurs in Europe in Holland, Sweden, 

 Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Hungary, and France. 

 In America, both North and South, from Hudson's Bay to 

 the Brazils. In Asia, in Tartary and Siberia, Persia, and along 

 the Caucasus. It has been noticed also at Madeira. 



The Black Tern used to breed in numbers in several of the 

 marshy parts of the country, but the drainage of lands has 

 destroyed many of its haunts. Winterton, in Norfolk, used 

 to be one of these, and Eomney Marsh, in Kent. It still 

 finds suitable places in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Cambridge- 

 shire. In the former county Crowland Wash was once a resort. 

 In Cambridgeshire, immense flocks of these birds appeared in 

 Bottisham and SwafFham fens, in the summer of 1824, as 

 recorded by the Eev. Leonard Jenyns; a pair were killed at 

 March, the 7th. of May, 1850. In Cornwall, a specimen 

 occurred at Mount's Bay, the beginning of April, 1850. In 

 Sussex, one the same year, at Balmer, near Lewes, on the 

 9th. of that month. Individuals have occurred in Hampshire, 

 Devonshire, and Shropshire. In Middlesex, some at Kingsbury, 

 in the autumn of 1841. The Black Tern is occasionally 

 plentiful on the Norfolk coast; three or four at Horsey, near 

 Yarmouth, May 17th., 1853. In Yorkshire, a few used to 

 frequent the streams near Driffield, and individuals have 

 occurred near York, Barnsley, Hebden Bridge, and Sheffield, 

 one in the middle of the town; one also at Kirkstall, near 

 Leeds, in the year 1842. In Worcestershire, two near Wor- 

 cester, on or about the 12th. of November, 1849. Six of 



