238 COMMON TERN 
many islets in County Down, on the Skerries near Portrush, 
and on Inishtrahull. On the Scottish side of the Irish Sea, 
it nests at Southerness, and on the English only at Walney, 
where it is now vastly outnumbered by the Common Tern, 
if indeed any of the present species still remain there ; but 
it breeds in various places in North Wales. It is the 
common and abundant Tern of the Orkneys, Shetlands, 
and Outer Hebrides, and is the predominant species in 
Scotland generally. 
STHRNA FLUVIATILIS, Naumann. 
COMMON TERN. 
I received from Mr. Adams an immature specimen of 
this species, taken some years ago in the neighbeurhood of 
Douglas. Terns of any kind are very little known in Man 
outside the immediate neighbourhood of their nesting places, 
but in autumn Peel Bay appears to be regularly visited by 
afew. In October 1891 one of these was shot, and passed 
into possession of Mr. J. Claque; it is a Common Tern 
nearly in perfect plumage. On 28th September 1894 
Mr. Graves saw a small party, and in September 1895 
Mr. Adams received another specimen from the same 
town, which also proved to be of this species. 
The Common Tern breeds on the Copelands and on 
islands in Carlingford and Strangford Loughs; also on the 
Murray Islands in Fleet Bay, and elsewhere in Galloway, 
where, however, the writer is uncertain as to the species of 
the Terns in some of the colonies. On the English coast 
it is the predominant species, breeding in the north-west 
