183 laeiDjI;. 



Northern Tndiaj descending in winter as far south as the Cape 

 Colony. In eastern North America its place is taken by the 

 closely allied S. antillarum. 



Sterna caspia. Caspiajst Teen. 



Sterna caspia, Pallas, Nov. Comm. Petrop. xiv. p. 582 



(1769). 



Sterna caspia, Nauin. x. p. 18; Hewitson, p. 477; Gray, 

 p. 338; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 493; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 497; 

 Harting, p. 167; Dresser, viii. p. 289. 



Sylochelidon caspia, Macg. v. p. 626. 



Hydroprogne caspia, Gould, v. pi. 68. 



The Caspian Tern^ Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 385. 



Caspia = from the Caspian Sea. 



A rarer summer visitant to the eastern and southern shores 

 of England than might be expected, seeing that it breeds on 

 Sylt and the Danish coasts. Not recorded from Scotland or 

 Ireland. It inhabits the Palsearctic and the greater part of 

 the Nearctic Regions ; also the African and Indian coasts, 

 down to Australia and New Zealand, where it also breeds. 



\_Sterna hergii. Bupphll's Tebn. 

 Sterna Bergii, Lichtenstein, Verzeichn. p. 80 (1823). 

 Sterna velox, Harting, p. 168. 



Bergii, in honour of C. H. Bergius, a young collector for the Berlin Museum 

 (1816, 1817), who died of consumption at the Cape of Good Hope {Br. Peters). 



One was quite erroneously reported from near Dublin in 

 December 1876 {cf. H. Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 658). 

 It inhabits the Indian seas, from the Cape of Good Hope 

 to Ceylon and AustraUa.J 



Sterna anglica. Gull-billed Tern. 



Sterna Anglica, Montagu, Orn. Diet. Suppl. (1813) . 



Sterna an^ica, Naum. x. p. 38; Hewifson, p. 476; Gray, 



