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SANDWICH TERN. 
STERNA BOYSII. 
The Sandwich Tern is a periodical visitant in Great 
Britain, and has only been added to the list of British birds 
since the communication of Dr. Boys, of Sandwich in 
Kent, to Dr. Latham, who noticed it in his “ General 
Synopsis.” 
The geographical distribution of this species extends far 
and wide, but the bird seems to belong chiefly to the tem¬ 
perate climes, since it rarely occurs further north than the 
fifty-seventh degree, even during the summer months. 
In Great Britain the Sandwich Tern resorts annually 
to the coast of Northumberland, and the Isle of Coquet; 
it is found in great numbers on the Fern Islands, and 
in lesser numbers on the Kentish, Sussex, and Suffolk 
coasts. In Kamtschatka, New Zealand, the Cape of Good 
Hope, Mexico, Brazil, and many parts of North and 
South America, the Sandwich Tern is well known, and 
equally so in most parts of Europe, from the southern 
parts of Denmark to the Mediterranean. During the 
