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THE LITTLE TERN {Sterna minuta). 



A few Little Terns were seen on Breydon (Norfolk) on several dates 

 in June up to the 15th. The first returning migrants arrived there on 

 the 27th of July and were seen off Lowestoft (Suffolk) two days later. 

 An increase was noticed at Breydon on the 3rd of August and further 

 arrivals appeared on the 5th and 7th. The breeding-haunts in S.E. 

 Suffolk were almost deserted by the 4th, and birds were passing in small 

 numbers down the Suffolk coast on the 10th and 11th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 

 21st to 25th, and the 4th of September, and in larger numbers at Breydon 

 on the 25th and 31st of August. 



A few birds were passing on the Lancashire coast on the 3rd of 

 August and others were seen on the north coast of Carnarvonshire up to 

 the 11th. On the 12th a decrease in that area was followed by a large 

 arrival on the following day; these birds remained until the 16th, after 

 which date a gradual diminution took place. Throughout the month 

 one or two stragglers were noted on inland waters in Cheshire. 



In September sixteen birds were seen at Spurn Head (Yorkshire) on the 

 5th and one, the last, on the 9th ; the last record for Scotland was from 

 Kirkinner (Wigtown) on the 8th and the last Little Tern was seen off 

 Lowestoft on the 11th. On the 16th and 17th some numbers were still 

 to be seen on the coast of Romney Marsh (Kent), and three were still 

 present on the 18th. 



THE LITTLE AUK {Mergulus alle). 



The earliest records reported the arrival of single birds of this species 

 on the coasts of S.E. Suffolk and E. Sussex on the 31st of October. 

 Others were seen in the latter locality on the 2nd of November and one wa3 

 shot near Glastonbury (Somersetshire) on the 3rd. On the same date large 

 numbers appeared, flying north along the coast of Northumberland, and 

 two were seen on the Norfolk coast ; about the same time small numbers 

 arrived off Scarborough (Yorkshire), where they remained for about a 

 week. On the 4th one was picked up at Rugby (Warwickshire), on the 

 5th a few were still passing north on the coast of Northumberland, and 

 on the 12th others were recorded from Auskerry (Orkney). On the 13th 

 large numbers were again passing on the coast of Northumberland, and 

 between that date and the 15th many occurred on the N.E. coast of 

 Norfolk between Wells and Yarmouth. They were observed in the Tay 

 Estuary on the 15th and at the Isle of May (Fife) on the 20th. Two 

 were seen on the S.E. coast of Suffolk on the 23rd. Subsequently, they 

 were seen in small numbers up to the end of the year at different 

 localities in the Tay and Moray areas, in Orkney and at Fair Isle 

 (Shetland), while larger numbers arrived in the Forth on the 3rd and 

 30th of December, and at Fair Isle on the latter date. 



