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te clouds/' that it was considered he might by following them have 
killed a hundred in a day. He has shot several in a forenoon 
that came directly in his way : all of which were the Sterna 
hirundo .* At Ballybunian, on the coast of Kerry, this species 
was observed in 1833 by Capt. Sabine. 
In July 1834, I observed a number of terns in the bay of 
Galway, near the town ; and Mr. B. Ball, when visiting the 
islands of Arran off that coast, on the l£th of June, in the follow- 
ing year, found the nests of terns (S. hirundo?) containing eggs 
on the beach of Straw Island. On Deer Island, and one or two 
other islands off the Galway coast, this or one of the nearly- allied 
species breeds in quantity and in company with the Sterna minuta : 
— both appear on wing together in pursuit of prey. When feeding 
on sprats they have come within two or three yards of the boat in 
which my informant (the late Mr. John Mmmo) was fishing. 
On the rocky Hards Islands, off the same coast, where it is called 
durogue , the S. hirundo nidifies ; the species being ascertained 
by a young bird having been shot there on the 1st of August, 
1844.1* 
Fresh-water Breeding -haunts. — Montagu was not aware of this 
species breeding at any but marine localities in England, but its 
doing so about the fresh-water lakes of Ireland is of annual occur- 
rence. When at Port Lough, a small lake or tarn, % on the north- 
west of Donegal, on the £9th of June, 1832, 1 was conveyed in a 
“ corragh” to its two islands, where this species, with several of 
its nests containing eggs, were observed. The nests were placed 
among loose stones, and all composed of the common reed 
(Arundo phragmites ) and Equiseta, both of which grow on the 
islet; — a nest of the black-headed gull and sandpiper were 
likewise found there. On visiting Bands Island, in Lough 
Neagh, on the 15th June, 1833 (in company with Mr. William 
Sinclaire), for the purpose of ascertaining what species of gulls 
* Mr. Robert Warren, jun. + Rev. G. Robinson. 
+ From Willughby’s ‘Ornithology’ we learn that — ££ In the northern parts [of 
England] they call them terns ; whence Turner calls them, in Latine, Sterna, be- 
cause they frequent lakes and great pools of water, which in the north of England 
are called tarns” \ — p. 853. 
