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colouring varies little, but there seem to be two predomi- 
nant types, one bluish grey, the other sand coloured; I 
failed to make out, however, that these tints always corre- 
sponded to the surroundings, though the grey was of much 
the tone of the pebbles of slate shingle, and the buff closely 
resembled that of the bare sand. The Little Tern looks 
singularly large on the wing. 
Apart from this colony there are no records for the 
island. Little Terns nest, or have nested, on Dublin Bay, 
the coast of Louth, and Strangford Lough; they are local 
and not abundant in Ireland. They breed in at least one 
locality in Galloway, and they do so at Walney and 
Ravenglass, though other English sites on our sea have 
been forsaken. They nest also on the Welsh coast of the 
Irish Sea. The Little Tern has been reported from Orkney, 
but not from Shetland; there are two colonies in the Outer 
Hebrides. The species has yet many colonies, and others 
have been deserted, along the British coasts. 
[STERNA CANTIACA, J. F. Gmelin. 
SANDWICH TERN. 
Mr. G. Adams wrote Mr. Kermode ‘that one was shot at 
Ramsey 23rd August 1892, and sent to him to be mounted’ 
(Y. L. M,, iii. p. 540). 
There is nothing unlikely in the occasional occurrence 
of this species, which nests at Southerness, and at 
Ravenglass, within sight of the Manx hills, but at present 
it may be better to bracket it.] 
