308 BRITISH BIRDS. 



apparently little previous evidence of its occurrence in the 

 islands strictly included in the Outer Hebrides. 



[Norfolk. — One is said to have been picked up dead in 

 January. 1906, on the edge of Thetford Warren (J. H. 

 Gurney, ZooL, 1907, p. 122).] 



LITTLE TERN Sterna minuta L. S. page 651. 



SciLLY Islands. — Though it breeds in Cornwall, it appears 

 to be only a casual visitor to the Scillies (J. Clark, Zool.^ 1906, 

 p. 343). 



Isle of Man. — A small colony was found in 1898 (P. Ralfe, 

 t.c. 1899, p. 32). 



Scotland. — From Tay to Dee, common and increasing 

 (J. A. Harvie-Brown, Fauna of Toy Basin, p. 334). 



Shetland. — Six adults at Grutness Voe on September 20th, 

 1900. Not previously recorded from Shetland (W. E. Clarke 

 and T. G. Laidlaw, Ann. S.N.H., 1901, p. 11). 



Outer Hebrides. — Barra. — Five pairs nesting on a small 

 island in 1901 (W. L. MacGilhvray, t.c, 1901, p. 237); also 

 noted there in 1902-3, but since then has not been seen 

 (N. B. Kinnear, t.c, 1907, p. 81 ; cf. also antea, Vol. I., pp. 

 193 and 232). 



SOOTY TERN Sterna fuliginosa J. F. Gm. S. page 653. 



Suffolk. — An adult in good plumage, which had apparently 

 died from exhaustion, was found on the heathland between 

 Thetford and Brandon, at the end of March or beginning of 

 April, 1900, by Messrs. J. Nunn and G. Mortimer. It was 

 stuffed and remained wrongly identified until 1903, when 

 Mr. W. G. Clarke saw it and identified it as a Sooty Tern, 

 which was confirmed by Mr. T. Southwell (W. G. Clarke, 

 Zool., 1903, p. 393). 



Langs. — One was picked up alive, but in an exhausted 

 condition, ^in the early morning, on October 9th, 1901, in a 

 street in Hulme, near Manchester (H. Saunders, Bull. B.O.G., 

 XII., p. 26 ; see also C. Oldham, Zool, 1902, p. 355). 



These are the fourth and fifth examples recorded in this 

 country of this species. 



NODDY TERN Anous stolidus (L.). S. page 655. 

 Mr. R. J. Ussher's reasons, as expressed in his lately pub- 

 lished " List of Irish Birds," for excluding this bird from the 

 British avifauna, have already been given (see antea, p. 248). 

 For further details with regard to the specimen said to 

 have been shot on the Dee marshes see Coward and Oldham, 

 " Birds of Cheshire," p. 229. 



[To he continued.) 



