& 



NODDY TEEN. 



ANOUS STOLIDUS {Linn.). 



Sterna stolida, Linn. S. N. i. p. 227 (1766); Hewitson, ii. 



p. 486. 

 Megalopterus stolidus, Macg. v. p. 672. 

 Auoiis stolidus, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 567. 



As tins is a species with which I have no acquaintance 

 except in museums, I therefore quote from 'Yarrell' 

 to the effect that the only authentic record of its 

 capture in British territory was sent by the late William 

 Thompson to the ' Magazine of Zoology and Botany/ 

 and refers to two specimens that were said to have been 

 taken in the summer about 1830, between the Tuskar 

 Lighthouse and Dublin Bay by the captain of a vessel, 

 who brought them to Mr. William Massey, of the 

 Pigeon House, Dublin. One of these two birds is 

 now in the Science and Art Museum of that city. 



The Noddy is of general distribution throughout the 

 tropics. An interesting account of its breeding-habits 

 is quoted at length from Audubon in the 4th ed. of 

 ' Yarrell,' vol. iii. pp. 568-570 ; this quotation is fol- 

 lowed by another from a letter written to John Gould 

 by Mr Gilbert, who collected for him in Western 



