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experience goes, considerably in excess of the young 

 birds. 



Several instances are recorded of the Gannet having 

 been captured far inland, both in Lincolnshire and 

 Holderness, probably storm-driven birds. Mr. Morris 

 in his ' British Birds/ on the authority of Miss 

 Bickaby, of Bridlington Quay, narrates the following 

 singular occurrence : " On the 22nd day of April, 

 1838, after exceeding stormy snowy weather for two 

 or three days before, an old full-feathered Gannet 

 was found dead on Swainby Moor, in Cleveland, about 

 twenty miles from the sea- coast. This bird had evi- 

 dently been driven that same night inland by the force 

 of a tremendous wind from the north-east, and had 

 flown in a state of blindness as long as strength lasted, 

 it being found scarcely stiff, and with about two inches 

 and a quarter of the sharp beak, or snout, of the Gar- 

 fish forced into one eye, leaving only about half an 

 inch visible." 



NATATOEES. LARIDJE. 



248. STERNA CASPIA, Pallas. Caspian Tern. 



This fine species, the largest of the European Terns, 

 has occurred on several occasions on the eastern coast 

 of England. One specimen recorded by Mr. Yarrell 

 was shot at Caythorpe, near Grantham, in the south 

 of Lincolnshire, in May, 1853 (see also Zool. p. 3946). 



This Tern is said to have nested annually on the 



