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THE COMMON TERN. 



Sterna Jluviatilis, Naum. 



A FEW Common Terns were seen in Devonshire on the 2nd 

 of April, and on the 12th they had arrived at their breeding- 

 quarters in Kent. On the 26th many were seen in Dorset- 

 shire, and these apparently reached Anglesey on the 1st of 

 May and Walney Island, Lancashire, on the 1th. There seems 

 to have been a more or less parallel migration up the east 

 coastj a few being seen in Sussex on the 26th of April, in 

 Suffolk on the 30tb, and in Norfolk on the 1th of May. 

 Further arrivals reached Wales and Lancashire on the 15th 

 and 16th of May respectively. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 

 April 



May 



2nd. 



Devon. 



3rd. 



Devon (increase). 



10th. 



Herts. 



1th & 12th. 



Kent (arriving). 



12th/13th. 



Kent light. 



18th. 



Kent (increase). Merioneth. 



26th. 



Dorset (passing). Sussex. 



30th. 



Dorset, Suffolk, Norfolk. 



1st. 



Anglesey. 



3rd. 



Essex. 



4th. 



Norfolk (increase). Lancashire (some 





arrived). 



9th. 



Norfolk (further increase). 



Utb. 



Anglesey (many). 



