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on the Broads, near Horsey ; the last nest being found at Sutton 

 in 1858. During the spring migration northward these birds 

 seem to prefer following the trend of inland waters, leading the 

 beach southwards in autumn. I have observed more cross 

 Breydon in breezy weather than in calm. Thirty observed on 

 Breydon, May 8th, 1894. I saw forty-two on a mud-fiat in 

 company with Gulls, May 8th, 1895. Local, *' Blue darr." 



H. leucoptera. White-winged Black Tern. — A. First recorded 

 as British from a specimen killed at Horsey in May, 1853. In 

 May, 1871, Mr. E. T. Booth shot four on Breydon; and five at 

 Hickling, May, 1873, seeing several others. One on Breydon, 

 April 13th, 1888; another seen there Aug. 12th, 1896. 



H. hybrida. Whiskered Tern. — A. A female example was 

 shot at Hickling on June 17th, 1847. 



Sterna anglica. Gull-billed Tern. — A. Of the ten examples 

 recorded for Norfolk, nine were obtained on Breydon ; the first 

 on April 14th, 1849; the last on Sept. 5th, 1896 — an adult 

 female approaching winter plumage. 



S. caspia. Caspian Tern. — R. Nine examples, recorded in 

 Stevenson's 'Birds of Norfolk' (vol. iii. p. 296), were killed at 

 Yarmouth. 



S. cantiaca. Sandwich Tern. — N. U. Examples obtained 

 almost every year. Several on Breydon, Sept. 1892 ; two on 

 Sept. 29th, 1894. I put one up from a floating timber on Brey- 

 don in Sept. 1899. It was sluggish, and reluctantly flew off in 

 an easy Gull-like flight without protest. 



S. dougalli. Roseate Tern. — A. It may be that this species 

 was more frequent on our coast formerly than of late years, for 

 Messrs. Paget remark that *' Mr. Youell has known this to be 

 shot here." One was seen by Mr. E. T. Booth on Breydon, 

 May 26th, 1871. Of recent years it has been met with, and 

 there is little doubt that it has nested on the Norfolk coast. 



(To be continued.) 



