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of this species will be of great extent. Mr. Audu- 
bon found it on the Florida Keys in the end of 
May, and considered those which he procured there 
as new to the North American Fauna, but there 
and Charleston were the only parts where he met 
with it. 
It is remarkable that the Sandwich Tern should 
have remained so long unnoticed by our ornitho- 
logists, for it is by no means an uncommon spe- 
cies, although in Ireland, or the south of England, 
it does not appear to have been so frequently 
noticed. In the former, Mr. Thompson mentions 
no breeding stations, but Mr. Yarrell has stated 
on authority, that it breeds on Romney Marsh 
and in the mouth of the Blackwater in Essex, locali- 
ties differing from those in which w r o have else- 
where seen them. On the north-eastern coast it 
breeds abundantly on Coquet and the Farn Islands, 
on the latter in great abundance ; further into the 
Firth, we have it breeding on the Isle of May and 
some lesser rocks off North Berwick. We have 
seen it on the Solway also, but do not know of any 
breeding station there ; and we have observed it on 
the very northern coasts of Scotland in the month 
of June. It has been on the Firth of Forth that 
we have chiefly observed this tern ; on the Farn 
Islands there is a large colony, which we have visited 
in company with Mr. Selby. That gentleman states 
that it has “ selected a station apart from the other 
species, generally on a higher site, and the nests are 
so close to each other as to render it difficult to 
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