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satiny appearance upon the neck and breast, and in some cases 
if you lift the feathers you will perceive a pink tinge, almost 
as vivid as in S. dougalli. 
The Terns arrive about the middle of May, a few at first, 
afterwards the main body, Common, Arctic, and Sandwich, 
all together. After flying for hours together over the usual 
breeding stations without settling, they take themselves out 
to sea, and you can often see flocks resting upon the water. 
I remember in May, 1881, being afloat very early one 
morning, passing a great number so resting, and a very 
pretty sight it was ; this behaviour goes on for a few days, 
when the birds “ take the islands,” as the lighthouse keepers 
term it; that is, they rest a greater part of the day upon the 
stations chosen, and roost there, after which they at once 
begin laying. Their departure takes place about the middle 
of September, after which not a single tern is to be seen, 
whereas a month earlier the air was thick with their 
wheeling flocks, and the ear almost deafened by their shrill 
and incessant cries. 
RICHARD MOSLEY LLOYD. 
It is our painful duty to record the death of an old and valued 
member of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical 
Society, Mr. Richard Mosley Lloyd, who for many years has been a 
warm supporter and active worker and officer of that institution. He 
died at his residence, Spring Hill, Birmingham, on Saturday, February 
16th, after a few days’ illness. 
Mr. Lloyd will be remembered by conchologists as having added 
two new and well-marked varieties to the British inolluscan fauna, 
viz., Paludina vivipara, var. atro-purpurea, and Planorbis glciber, var. 
compressa, as also by his contributions to various natural history 
publications. Of late he had given more attention to microscopic 
work in connection with the above Society, where, as a painstaking 
and obliging officer, his loss will be much felt. 
All who knew him will lament the loss of a warm-hearted and 
honest man, kind, indulgent and forbearing, simple-minded, yet clever 
in much of this world’s knowledge, never obtrusive, ever ready to do a 
kind action, not seeking reward. 
The writer, to whom he was a constant companion for more than 
twenty years, mourns the loss of a true, gentle, and genuine friend, 
and his sorrowing family a tender guardian, whose care was always 
for the welfare and happiness of those he loved, and who never spared 
himself in doing that which he thought worthy of his hand. 
For many years Mr. Lloyd was one of the engineers to the Water 
Department of Birmingham, an office he held at his death, and 
wherein his upright character made him much respected. 
February 21, 1884. G. S. T. 
