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LARIDiE. 
* more singular than that of others of the terns of the south-east of 
Europe. As the first procured in Western Europe, it is looked 
upon with surprise ; but when a few other individuals have been 
obtained, the circumstance will be regarded as nothing remark- 
able. In the same way, when I noticed the Sterna stolida for the 
first time as met with in the European seas, the announcement 
was looked upon with wonder ; but within a few years afterwards 
the bird was observed on the coast of Erance, and more recently 
in St. George's Channel. 
The Caspian Tern (Sterna Caspia, Pallas), which has been obtained 
several times on the coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk, is not known to 
have visited Ireland ; — or Scotland ( Jard. Macg.) ; nor has the 
Gull-billed Tern (Sterna Anglica , Montagu), though a few indi- 
viduals have been procured in different parts of England. 
THE SANDWICH TEEN. 
Sterna Cantiaca, Gmel. 
„ Boysii, Lath. 
Is of occasional occurrence on the coast in slimmer and 
autumn, both in immature and adult plumage. 
It was first indicated as an Irish species in the Proceedings of 
the Zoological Society of London for 1833 (p. 33), from a speci- 
men shot on the 14th of August, 1832, in Belfast Bay, that came 
into my possession in a recent state. At the indenture of the 
shore here, opposite Garnerville, called Harrison's Bay, a shooter 
was attracted by the call, such as he had never before heard, of 
two birds flying overhead, and shot one of them. It proved to be 
this species in its young plumage, as described and figured by 
Latham, under the name of Sterna striata. The perishable colours 
of the bill and legs (though changing little by drying in this 
species) were noted — tarsi, toes, and webs black ; under side toes 
yellowish; bill blackish horn-colour, with yellow tip. On the 
