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LIST OF NORFOLK BIRDS. 
197. Black Tern {^Hydrochelidon nigra). 
At the commencement of the present century this bird bred in 
great numbers both in the Fens and Broads of Norfolk. After 
having been long extinct in Hockwold and Feltwell Fens, in 
the year 1853, after an extensive flood, three pairs again nested in 
that neighbourhood. Mr. Stevenson states that the last nest he 
knows of in Norfolk was taken at Sutton in 1858. At present the 
species occurs in small numbers generally in April, August, and 
September each year, and would doubtless breed if not invariably 
shot. — S. 
198. White-winged Tern {Hydrochelidon leucoptcra). 
A white-winged Tern — the flrst recorded in England — was killed 
at Horsey in May, 1853, it was with another individual of the 
same species in company with fifteen or twenty Black Terns ; 
another, in Mr. Stevenson’s collection, was shot at Ilickling, in 
June, 1867. In May, 1871, four were killed by Mr. E. T. Booth, 
at Breydon, and in May, 1873, he shot five, and saw several 
more at Ilickling. In June, 1883, two were seen at Barton, 
and one of them (killed on the 10th at Hickling) is now in 
IMr. E. W. Chase’s collection at Birmingham. 
199. Whiskered Tern {Hydrochelidon hybridci). 
A Whiskered Tern — the second killed in Britain — was shot 
on Hickling Broad in June, 1847 ; and is at present the only 
known occurrence of this species on the east coast of England. 
It was a female, and contained an egg almost ready to receive 
the shell. 
200. Gull-billed Tern {Sterna anglica). 
The Gull-billed Tern was only admitted with very great doubt 
in Gurney and Fisher’s list of Norfolk Birds. Shortly after, viz., in 
1849, one was obtained in the spring, one in the summer, and two 
in the autumn. The following year another was obtained, and the 
next year another. No more occurred until 1878, when two Avere 
shot, as recorded by Mr. T. E. Gunn (‘ Zoologist,’ 1880, p. 53). 
The pair in my father’s collection I have no doubt are the tAvo 
which were shot together in the autumn of 1849, at Yarmoutli, 
Avhere all the others Avere taken. — G. 
