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LARIM. 
England or Scotland. Aberdeen is the most northern breeding- 
haunt in Great Britain, named in the works of Macgillivray and 
J ardine ; but in a more recent publication the species is said to 
remain in the Orkneys from May until August, and hence we may 
presume, to increase its numbers there.* Its not being found in 
the western hemisphere renders the west of Ireland, within its 
latitude, the extreme western limit of distribution. 
On the 13th of July, 1841, the little tern came under my 
notice on the Lake of Constance, and soon after leaving Basle, a 
few days afterwards, when I was proceeding down the Bhine, 
numbers of this species and the common tern were seen about 
the river in the very extensive, marshy, and wild sandy tracts 
bordering which, doubtless, they both bred. 
THE BLACK TEEN. 
Sterna nigra , Briss. 
,, fissipes , Linn. 
Is of occasional occurrence, chiefly in autumn, when 
immature. 
I shall notice this species according to dates, instead of localities. 
It was first recorded as Irish in the Zoological Proceedings for 
1834 (p. 31), from information supplied to me by Mr. B. Ball, 
who, in the month of July, for several successive years long before 
that time,t had observed a number of them to frequent a 
lake at Boxborough, near Middleton, county Cork.J The late 
Mr. John Montgomery, of Locust Lodge, Belfast, saw one of 
these birds in the outer bay of Dundrum (county Down) at the 
latter end of July or beginning of August 1821; and, on men- 
tioning the circumstance to me, added, that he had seen a pre- 
* £ Hist. Nat. Oread.’ p. 90 (1848). 
f About 1819, since which period he has not visited the locality. 
£ Mr. Yarrell, merely quoting this, remarks, that “ the black tern is a summer 
visitor to the different parts of Ireland” (vol. iii. p. 414) ; which implies too much. 
