STERNA. 267 



General Distribution. — The (Caspian Tern breeds locally in 

 Europe from about 60° N. latitude on the coasts and islands 

 of Sweden, Finland, and (formerly) Denmark, probably on 

 the coast of Holland, and in the Mediterranean from south 

 Spain, eastwards to the Black and Caspian seas; also in 

 western Siberia and the Kirghiz Steppes to south Ussuri-land, 

 and in south Persia and Ceylon ; in north Africa, Gambia, 

 and Cape Colony ; likewise in Australia and New Zealand. 

 It also breeds in North America in various localities from 

 Labrador to Great Slave Lake, and southwards to the coasts of 

 Texas, Mississippi, and South Carolina. It is migratoi-y in 

 the northern parts of its range and in winter visits both sides 

 of Africa to the Cape ; southern Asia ; and both coasts of 

 North America south to Mexico. It is occasional in Alaska 

 and Newfoundland. 



Sterna anglica. Gull-billed Teen. 



Sterna ang-lica Montagu, Orn. Diet. Suppl. 1813 [no 

 pagination] : England. 



Sterna anglica Mont. ; B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 182 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 639. 

 Gelochelidon anglica Saunders, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. 1896, 



p. 25 



AngVlca='Eng)is\ because first described from an English specimen. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — ^An Occasional Visitor 

 to the east and south consts of England where about twenty- 

 four examples have been recorded ; also once in Scotland at 

 the Pentland Skerries. 



General Distribution. — The Gull-billed Tern breeds locally 

 in western and southern Europe and in central and southern 

 Asia, including western Denmark and Schleswig, Spain, 

 Portugal and southern France ; occasionally in Bavaria and 

 Hungary ; in Greece, on the Black and Caspian seas, in Asia 

 Minor, Persia, north-west India, Turkestan, and eastwards 

 across temperate Asia to south-east Mongolia and south 

 Ussuri-land ; also in north Africa from Morocco to Egypt 



