LESSEE SOOTY TERN. 



STERNA A N2ES THE TA, Scopoli. 



Sterna ansestheta, Scopoli, Del. Faun, et Flor. Insubr. i. p. 92 • 

 Saunders, Zool. 1877, p. 213 ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 xxv. p. 101. 



Sterna panayensis, J. F. Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 607. 



Mr. Howard Saunders reported in 1877 that he had 

 examined a specimen of this species said to have been 

 captured on one of the lightships at the mouth of the 

 Thames in September 1875. 



The range of the Lesser Sooty Tern encircles the 

 globe in tropical and subtropical seas. The probability 

 of a straggling bird occurring on our shores is at least 

 as great as one of either the Sooty or Noddy Tern 

 doing so. [O. S.] 



