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  Brewster 
  1 
  on 
  the 
  occasion 
  of 
  a 
  visit 
  he 
  paid 
  Harvie-Brown 
  in 
  

   September 
  1891, 
  at 
  Dunipace, 
  and 
  he 
  was 
  strongly 
  impressed 
  by 
  

   their 
  typical 
  appearance. 
  On 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  and 
  as 
  regards 
  the 
  

   Eoseate 
  Tern, 
  Brown 
  says: 
  — 
  1 
  Terns 
  were 
  much 
  scarcer 
  in 
  1888/ 
  

   and 
  ' 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  known 
  to 
  me, 
  none 
  (and 
  none 
  of 
  the 
  Roseate 
  Terns) 
  

   bred 
  at 
  the 
  locality 
  this 
  season.' 
  

  

  All 
  evidence 
  and 
  every 
  other 
  circumstance 
  considered, 
  we 
  think 
  

   these 
  eggs 
  taken 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Lee 
  are 
  correctly 
  identified, 
  and 
  worthy 
  

   of 
  full 
  record 
  in 
  a 
  Fauna 
  of 
  Moray. 
  But 
  up 
  to 
  date 
  of 
  1895 
  all 
  

   efforts 
  to 
  find 
  Roseate 
  Terns 
  there 
  again, 
  both 
  by 
  Harvie-Brown, 
  

   O. 
  A. 
  J. 
  Lee, 
  and 
  Buckley, 
  have 
  failed. 
  

  

  Sterna 
  fluviatilis 
  (Naum.). 
  Common 
  Tern. 
  

  

  Local 
  Name. 
  — 
  Pictar, 
  or 
  Pickitar. 
  

  

  St. 
  John 
  considered 
  this 
  an 
  exclusively 
  shore-breeding 
  species, 
  but 
  

   this 
  is 
  certainly 
  opposed 
  to 
  our 
  experience. 
  Indeed, 
  we 
  have 
  

   always 
  considered 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  one 
  that 
  most 
  commonly 
  breeds 
  

   inland. 
  At 
  the 
  same 
  time, 
  the 
  Common 
  Tern 
  nests 
  abundantly 
  on, 
  

   or 
  close 
  to, 
  the 
  shore, 
  and 
  we 
  have 
  seen 
  a 
  fine 
  colony 
  on 
  one 
  part 
  

   of 
  the 
  east 
  coast 
  of 
  Sutherland. 
  

  

  Booth 
  obtained 
  specimens 
  for 
  his 
  collection 
  in 
  the 
  Dornoch 
  

   Firth 
  in 
  1869. 
  

  

  The 
  immense 
  colony 
  at 
  the 
  west 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  Old 
  Bar 
  of 
  Find- 
  

   horn, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  largest 
  we 
  have 
  ever 
  seen 
  anywhere, 
  we 
  are 
  pretty 
  

   confident 
  is 
  composed 
  of 
  the 
  Arctic 
  species. 
  Mr. 
  Millais 
  has, 
  how- 
  

   ever, 
  identified 
  the 
  Common 
  Tern 
  as 
  breeding 
  near 
  Fort 
  George 
  

   in 
  1891. 
  A 
  few 
  pairs 
  of 
  the 
  Common 
  Tern 
  breed 
  also 
  on 
  some 
  

   shingly 
  banks 
  up 
  the 
  Ness 
  river. 
  

  

  Although 
  Edward 
  says 
  nothing 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  though 
  he 
  

   includes 
  the 
  Arctic 
  Tern, 
  the 
  Common 
  Tern 
  is 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  

   Banff 
  Museum 
  by 
  both 
  adult 
  and 
  young, 
  and 
  Smith 
  includes 
  the 
  

   Common 
  Tern 
  in 
  his 
  lists, 
  as 
  also 
  does 
  Dr. 
  J. 
  0. 
  Wilson. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  Culbin 
  Sands 
  it 
  is 
  abundant, 
  and 
  indeed 
  is 
  the 
  Com- 
  

   mon 
  Tern 
  in 
  fact 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  in 
  name. 
  It 
  breeds 
  in 
  isolated 
  pairs 
  

   far 
  up 
  the 
  rivers, 
  even 
  here 
  and 
  there 
  in 
  the 
  Carn 
  districts, 
  on 
  

   islands 
  and 
  shingles 
  of 
  the 
  Spey 
  below 
  Grantown 
  (Evans), 
  and 
  as 
  

   high 
  up 
  as 
  Kingussie, 
  as 
  observed 
  by 
  ourselves 
  many 
  years 
  ago. 
  

  

  1 
  Curator 
  of 
  the 
  Cambridge 
  Museum, 
  Mass., 
  U.S.A. 
  

  

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