COMMON TERN. 
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of bL°*^k'^'f "’ith sandy buff tips, before which is a distinct bar 
Range in Great Britain. — I cannot do better than quote the 
remarks of Mr. Saunders as to the distribution of the present 
species in the British Isles. He writes : — “ Broadly speaking, 
believe that the Common Tern is the predominant species 
‘'^ong the shores of the Channel, and on the west side of 
'jreat Britain as far north as the Isle of Skye ; while on the 
east It is found from Kent to the Moray Firth, and was the 
en y species that I observed near Nairn during August, 1885. 
^oniinuing northwards, we find it yielding numerically to the 
c't?/'^- showing a liking for fresh-water lochs or 
''ather than for es'posed islands, though Mr. H.arvie- 
end"^'f nesting abundantly at the west 
bv a° l^entland Skerries, while the eastern was occupied 
of nf Arctic Terns. I have no conclusive evidence 
Q 1 ® °'^'^nrrence of the Common Tern in the Shetlands, 
in I Hebrides.” Mr. R. J. Ussher says that 
V '^‘■neds on islands off the coasts of most of the 
ritirae counties, and also on lakes in Londonderry, Antrim, 
yrone, Armagh, Fermanagh, Cavan, Longford, Roscommon, 
Hyo, and Leitrim. 
Ranp Outside the British Islands. — The Common Tern is found 
coasts, rivers, and inland lakes of nearly every 
nrwnx' cnnHiwnrHc;. nnfl the Same 
conntr ,v rivers, ana inlana lakes 
mav hJ ’f™Pc, from Norway southwards, and tu^ 
Cashmere'*^ H ""hole of Central Asia to the highlands of 
and Ceylon n Hnbet. In winter its range extends to India 
It also inliahitr? ^ coasts of Western and Southern Africa, 
as Texas vidt; ^^P^^^'ate North America, breeding as for south 
extends to Bradf *^1^ Indies in winter, whence it also 
coast of North AnL,- almost unrecorded from the Pacific 
Osbert Salvin at Ln' Tn ‘‘"a^ature bird was shot by Mr. 
r Jose de Guatemala in December, 1862. 
grace, and ai'lt Ibis pretty bird in the air are full of 
the land it In rf sea-shore at a little distance from 
least ado’ptinrr n.! 1 ' slender and graceful Gull, not in the 
swallow ” is 'th ^ motions of a Swallow, although “ Sea- 
e name generally applied to it. The Common 
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