256 BRITISH BIRDS. [vol. xiv. 



moved away to follow the fish. No doubt the few that 

 attempted to lay were subsequently induced to follow. 

 The facts are indicative of this, especially as the birds, which 

 were never unduly disturbed, did not breed anywhere in the 

 vicinity ; and later I met with many adult Sandwich Terns, 

 more than twenty miles farther west, which spent their days 

 in fishing and wheeling around very high in the air after the 

 manner of non-breeding individuals. Probably in no other 

 colony in the British Isles are all five species of Terns found 

 breeding together in such a limited area. 



