S A N D W I C H T E R N.
STRIATED TERN, (YOUNG.)
Sterna Boysii,
Sterna Cantiaca,
PENNANT. FLEMING. SELBY.
MONTAGU. BEWICK.
JENYNS. GOULD.
Èoysii—OÏ Boys.
THIS Tern has received its Latin name from that of Dr. Boys, its
first discoverer; and its English one from Sandwich, in Kent, the
place where it then occurred.
It is more or less common in various parts of Europe—Sweden,
Denmark, Germany, Holland, and Fricsland, France, Swilzerland, Italy,
and along the shores of the Mediterranean. In Africa, it has been
found at the (.'ape; and in North America from 'Texas and Charleston
to Florida; and in South America, in Mexico and Brazil. In Asia,
in Kamtschatka; also in New Zealand.
In Yorkshire, the Sandwich Tern has occurred near Huddersfield;
in Derbyshire, occasionally near Melbourne. In Cornwall, it has been
met with about Swanpool, Falmouth, and Scilly, where it is said to
breed, but is rare; also in Devonshire, Sussex, Suffolk, and Durham;
in Norfolk, it is not uncommon about Yarmouth, one was shot at
Hunstanton, September 6th., 1801. In Oxfordshire, it has been killed
on Otmoor and near Oxford, the latter specimen on the 184th-, of
August, 1847; three or four others were shot near Oxford, on the
Isis, April 23rd., 1853.
In Ireland, the species occurs as an occasional straggler; Dublin, etc.
In Scotland, it has been noticed in Sutherlandshire and on the
Frith of Forth, the Lie of May, and the Berwickshire coast.
They breed on the Bass Rock, off the coast of Berwick; also in
Kent, about Romney Marsh; in Essex, at the mouth of the Blackwater
River; and in Northumberland, on the Fern Islands and Coquet Island.