THE WHISKERED TEEN. 299 



Colour. Head (above that portion which is in a line with the upper mantlihle) 

 and nape jet black, as in 8. hiruncio ; sides of head for f inch from the bill, having a 

 stripe of pore white. From the upper part of the breast to the vent (entire under 

 surface) blackish-grey. Vent-feathers and under surface of the tail, whitish. Upper 

 surface of wings and tail, dark grey, but lighter than the under surface ; shoulder or 

 ridge of wing on the upper surface, white. 



BUI and legs have faded to a pale yellowish horn-colour. 



In the 2ud edition of Yarreli's work, published in 1845, one 

 individual only was recorded as obtained in Great Britaui; — near 

 Lyme, Dorsetshire, at the end of August 1836 — but another has 

 since been procured, of which we have the following account : — 



" An example of the whiskered tern ^ "^ * was shot on 

 the 17th inst., whilst flying high over the Hickling Broad. It 

 proved to be an adult female, and contained ova in an advanced 

 stage ; the largest being apparently almost ready to receive the 

 shell. In the stomach were found the remains of about twenty 

 of the larva of the broad-bodied dragon-fly,'"^ 



Temminck, in I820,t described this species as a new one, 

 discovered by M. Natterer of Yienna, in the south of Hungary, 

 and as having been found in the marshes of Capo d'Istria and on 

 the coasts of Dalmatia; also that M. De la Motte, of Abbeville, 

 had, on one occasion, seen several individuals, and killed three of 

 them in a marsh on the coast of Picardy. It has since been 

 ascertained to breed annually in the south of France. J Speci- 

 mens of this bird in the British Museum are labelled " Ilj/dro- 

 clielidon\ hijbrida, India ? Hardwicke bequest," and "■ Cape Seas, 

 Dr.N Andrew Smith's collection." If it be the 8. hijhrida of Pallas, 

 this name should probably have the advantage of priority; his 

 work, in which it is described, being published betweeii 1811 and 

 1831.11 



I had the gratification, on the 30th of April, 1811, of observ- 

 ing for a long time on wing, over a marsh a few miles northward 



* J. li. Guruey, Wm. R. Fisher; June 30, 1847. Contribution to the ' Zoolo 

 gist' for August 1847, p. 1820. 



t Manuel, 2nd ecUt. Part II. p. 74(i. 



\ Deglaud, ' Ornitli. Europ.' tojue ii. p. 354. § Boic. 



II Ibid. „ „ p. 353. 



