The Roseate Tern is much shjer and flies more loftilj, and 
so far as I have been able to observe, has never emitted any 
kind of cry, though some gentlemen with me thought they 
once or twice heard a feeble whistling, which they ascribed 
to the new Tern. 
This species resorts to two small rocky islands in Milford 
Bay, in the Firth of Clyde, called Cumber Islands ; they 
appear more attached to their place of nidification than the 
Common Tern, with which they associate ; we every day 
saw numbers of the latter fishing at a great distance from 
the rocks on which they build, but never once the Roseate 
Terji till we came near or landed upon the rocks. 
I have ascertained male and female, by dissection when 
in full plumage, in the month of July; in the Omrium of 
the females were observed shrunk capsules, shewing they 
had lately parted with eggs. 
With regard to the eggs I cannot speak with certainty, 
but they must be very like those of the common kind, as 
among thousands there was no marked difference. The 
eggs are sometimes disposed, apparently without care, on 
the short grass ; at other places a slight excavation is seen, 
with a few dry straws. I know nothing of the young, as my 
visits were limited as to time." 
The Doctor further remarks, that the figure in the 
Supplement to Colonel Montagu's Dictionary was taken 
from a specimen, which was wounded in the neck^ andj that 
