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Loch Lomond was seen on the 25th May following. A young bird of the year was shot by 

 Mr. Harvie-Brown on the banks of the Forth, near Grangemouth, on 10th September, 1870. 

 According to Mr. Thomas Edmondston it has also on one occasion been seen in Shetland." 



In Ireland, according to Thompson, it is of occasional occurrence, chiefly in the autumn, in 

 immature plumage. It does not appear to have occurred in the Fseroes ; but Mr. Collett informs 

 me that it appears now and again in Southern Norway, and may possibly breed there. Nilsson 

 says that it is a summer visitant to Southern Sweden, arriving in May and leaving in September. 

 It breeds in Southern and Eastern Skane, and is stated to occur on the east coast up to Upland. 

 In Ostergothland it is very rare, but tolerably numerous in Gottland. Wallengren says that it 

 breeds here and there in North-eastern Skane, and it also breeds near Gothenburg, but is not 

 common. According to Dr. Palmen (Finl. Fogl. ii. p. 580), although the present species has but 

 very seldom been met with in Finland, it is probable that it may occur more frequently, and 

 possibly it breeds in the south-western portion of the country. Sadelin includes it, but does not 



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there is a specimen which was shot near Abo, and presented by Mr. von Haartman, in 1837. 

 Mr. Sahlberg observed a specimen on Lake Pyhajarvi, in Yliine, in July 1864, which was by no 

 means shy and kept close to the boat. Mr. Gronfeldt also states that Mr. A. Wahlroos has on 

 several occasions during the summer seen a Black Tern in the large inlets formed by the Kumo 

 river below the town of Bjorneborg. 



Mr. Sabanaeff informs me that it is tolerably generally distributed throughout Central 

 Russia, and breeds in the Jaroslaf Government. In Southern Russia it is common. In the 

 Ural it does not occur on the eastern slope higher than about 57° N. lat. On the southern 

 shores of the Baltic it is found in almost all suitable localities ; it not unfrequently straggles far 

 inland ; and Naumann says that it is found annually in Anhalt, and is numerous in suitable 

 localities. Mr. A. Benzon informs me that it is found throughout Denmark in marshy places, 

 and is not uncommon during the breeding-season, arriving late in May. It breeds numerously 

 on Seeland and Jutland, but is less numerous on the small islands in the south. On the German 

 coasts of the North Sea it breeds also not uncommonly ; and Mr. H. Durnford, who collected 

 there, writes (Ibis, 1874, p. 400) as follows: — "We found two pairs nesting in a very wet, 

 marshy spot on Nordstrand, and one pair on Fohr. We observed a few pairs on the mainland, 

 near Husum, and again near Hayer, in very wet places. All the nests we found were made of 

 the dead stems of reeds, and resting, half floating, just at the edge of pools of water among tall 

 rushes." Baron von Droste Hulshoff says that he only occasionally observed it on the Island of 

 Borkum ; but it becomes common on Nordernei, and is numerous in some parts of Holland, 

 where it arrives early in May and leaves late in August. Mr. Labouchere informs me that it is 

 often found on meres and marshy places far inland, and appears to be most numerous in the 

 vicinity of Gouda, in Southern Holland, but he has also seen it in many other parts of the 

 country. Throughout the entire year it is said to occur in marshy places in Belgium, and breeds 

 in various localities in that country ; and Messrs. Degland and Gerbe write that it is very 

 common in France, and is seen regularly in April and May, August and September, in the 

 northern, central, and eastern departments, and is said to be much more numerous in the 

 south ; for M. Crespon states that sometimes as many as 500 are exposed for sale in the market 



