228 
BIRDS. 
[ near Handa {Froc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow, 1875. — J. A. H.-B.) 
may or may not be correct ; the note made many years ago 
still stands in onr note-book, but we again repeat it here, 
as perhaps deserving of further inquiry. We believe the 
common tern to be much rarer on the west coast of Scotland 
than on the east, but Wolley shot both species on the little 
islands off Badcall (WolL, U.-B. vol. iii.). 
Caithness names — " Kirinew," " Bittock," " Chill Teaser." An 
occasional visitant to Caithness, and, according to Mr. 
Osborne, persecutes the gulls, and makes them disgorge 
their food in the same manner as the skuas (0. MSS., 
1868). 
Breeds abundantly on the Pentland Skerries (1885, J. A. 
H.-B.) along with the Arctic tern ; but while the common 
tern is most abundant at the west end of the island, the 
Arctic is most abundant at the east end. These terns nest 
all over the flat, short grassy meadows of the Skerries. 
326. Sterna dougalli, Mont. Roseate Tern. 
327. Sterna minuta, L. Lesser Tern. 
A rare summer visitant ; a pair visited the shore between 
Brora and Kintradwell in 1871, and probably bred there; 
they were also seen in the same place in 1877. They have 
not been observed in the west to our knowledge. 
" In Caithness it is a regular summer visitant, and appears to 
be well known on the east coast, its small size no doubt 
attracting a good deal of attention to it, and a few pairs are, 
in the season, always to be observed in the vicinity of Wick 
and Ackergill" (H. Osborne, in MSS.). Not observed by 
us in 1885. 
328. Sterna bergii, Lichfenstein. Rup pell's Tern. 
