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and the Red sea. On the Atlantic coast of North America 

 it nests from Virginia to the coasts of Texas and the West 

 Indies. In winter it visits the whole of Africa, southern 

 Asia, the Malayan Archipelago, and America, south to 

 Patagonia and Chile. It occurs occasionally in Holland, 

 the north of France, central Europe, and on the Pacific coast 

 of Central America. In Australia a rather larger and paler 

 race is recognised ranging north to the Malay Archipelago 

 in winter. 



Sterna sandvicensis. Sandwich Tern. 

 Sterna sandvicensis Latham, Gen. Synop. Suppl. i. 1787, 



p. 2'J6 : England. 



Sterna cantiaca Ghnel. ; S. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 183 ; 

 Saunders, Cat. Birds S. M. xxv. 1896, p. 75 ; id. Manual, 

 2nd ed. 1899, p. 643. 



Sandvicensis, of Sandwich in Kent, whence a Mr. Boya sent an example to 

 Latham ui 1 784. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A STunmer Visitor from 

 March to September. It breeds locally on various parts of 

 the east coast of Great Britain, from the Orkney Islands to 

 Kent, also on the west coast ; but the most important stations 

 are on the Fame Islands, Northumberland, and at Ravenglass, 

 Oninberland. The breeding-grounds are not infrequently 

 changed, and those in Kent, Essex, the Scilly Islands, and 

 Walney Island, Lancashire, are at present deserted. In 

 Ireland several colonies are known on loughs in cos. Mayo 

 and Fermanagh, and elsewhere. 



General Distribution.^ The Sandwich Tern breeds on the 

 North sea along the low coasts and islands of Jutland and the 

 Netherlands, occasionally in the Channel Islands, Spain, 

 the eastern Gnnarj^ Islands, Sardinia and possibly Sicily, 

 Tunisia, and the Black and Caspian seas ; also on the east 

 coast of North America from North Carolina to Mexico 

 and Honduras. In winter it is common in north Africa and 

 follows the west coast to the Cape and extends up to Natal ; 



