BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 423 
Loch of Friar's Carse (Holy wood), some six miles NNW. 
of Dumfries, on May 28th, 1894, It was found on dissec- 
tion to contain semi-digested portions of the fresh-water 
shrimp {Gammarus pulex). This specimen, an adult male, 
was stuffed by Mr. Hugh Mackay, and may now be seen in 
the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, having been 
presented by Mr. R. Service, who duly recorded its capture.* 
For the photograph of the actual specimen (here reproduced) 
I am indebted to the courtesy of the authorities of the above- 
mentioned museum. 
The Whiskered Tern nests in northern India and in Africa. 
In Europe important colonies exist in south-west Spain, 
the delta of the Rhone, Greece, Turkey, the Danubian 
swamps, the south of Russia, and in Poland. Its winter- 
quarters are further south, and it is only a very rare 
straggler to the British Islands ; or, in fact, north of its 
nesting-colonies. 
THE SANDWICH TERN. Sterna cantiaca, J. F. GmeHn. 
An occasional summer-visitant off our coast. 
Sir William Jardine writes of the Sandwich Tern in 1843 : 
" We have seen it on the Sol way also, but do not know of 
any breeding station there. "f The occasional individuals 
which are seen fishing off our coast probably come from a 
small but increasing nesting-colony in the neighbouring 
county of Kirkcudbright. From the Farne Islands on the 
east around the coast of Scotland to as far south as Walney 
Island, off Lancashire, on the west, there are several breeding- 
stations of this species. In Ireland, there are colonies on 
Lough Erne and near Ballina ; and in 1903 I found two or 
three nests of this species on an island in Loch Conn. When 
persecuted, the Sandwich Tern has been known to abandon 
* Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1894, p. 179. 
t Nat. Lib., 1843, Vol. XIV., p. 273. 
