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in year 1830. One of them is still preserved 
in the Dublin Museum. 
oatside the British Islands. — Tlie following summary of 
Rrui'ch Noddy is given by Mr. Saunders in the 
in 't' f ^“seum “ Catalogue of Birds “ Tropical and 
on th America, chiefly on the Atlantic side, but also 
dmvn t rp Mexico and the central region ; Atlantic 
nnrl a ° da Cunha (breeding) ; inter-tropical African 
o . . ^^as, up to Yeddo ; Australasia down to about 35° 
V of the Pacific up to Laysan, &c., and as far as Sala 
Riders j also Chatham Island, Galapagos {jide 
as “°r or Chile. Breeding, 
as a rule, where found.” 
th^lsl^nT”^ nest in enormous numbers in some of 
the Sooty Tern Ocean, generally in the vicinity of 
on good terms with which the Noddy is always 
difficulty remnp<.n r generally so tame as to be with 
he has 1-np, . nests, but Mr. Palmer says that 
a gond^Qp"' boldly drive away Albatroses. Gilbert gives 
Abrolhos of t’re Noddy on Houtman’s 
increase in m ^^o^^^rn Australia, and he declares that the 
but fnr iRp number of the Terns would be overwhelming 
shape of a'^liSr^'n’^ provided against it in the 
breeding-nlacpc n extremely abundant about their 
Sooty Terns ’»x an easy prey in the Noddy and 
observation, that satisfied,” he writes, “from constant 
every twenty birdsT ‘''•’'^e''agc, not more than one out of 
enough to take wing - n reaches maturity or lives long 
birds are constantly .S'‘eat numbers of the old 
bird, but merely e.xtra* t^^' lizards do not eat the whole 
remainder, however “’’ains and vertebral marrow ; the 
lardarius, a beetle whi 'h cleared off by the Dermestes 
me a great deal of un^ amazing numbers, and gave 
my collection from and constant trouble to preserve 
Noddy is said bv (-1^, '’^P^ated attacks.” The food of the 
niollusca, modus®, cuttle*fish of small fish, small 
Nsst,^ — of ^ * * 
inches in diamete according to Gilbert ; about six 
b and varying in height from four to eight 
