COMMON TERN.
TERN. GREATER TERN. SEA SWALLOW. GUI,], TEASER.
Sterna kirundo, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK.
U " FLEMING. SEI.HY. JENYNS.
" " GOULD. YAK-HELL.
Sterna major, BKISSON.
Hmtrnio marina, RAY. WILLUGHBY.
Sterna— ? Hirundo—k Swallow.
11 would appear that this species is not so common as is imported
by its name, other kinds having been confounded with it in the first
instance.
I t visits Germany, France, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, and
the Mediterranean, from Norway, Spitsbergen, and other places of t he
north. In Asia it is seen in Asia Minor; and in Africa on the west
coast, in Madeira, and the Canary Islands. In America, in Greenland
and about Hudson's Bay, and so southwards to New England and
other parts.
In Cornwall it occurs about Gwyllynvase, Newlyn, where it breeds,
Swanpool, and Falmouth, but it is not common there, though gcnerally
elsewhere. It is however not unfrequcntly seen quite inland, as in
Oxfordshire, especially in the spring months. In Worcestershire one,
a young bird, was shot near Worcester, on the banks of the River
Severn, in October, 1840. In Monmouthshire another was obtained on
the 12th. of the same month; others were seen. Some large flocks
had occurred a few years before. In Surrey this bird has been frequently
shot at Frensham Pond, near Godalming. Two at Chertsey,
October 6th., 1846. One was killed at Rushy Park, and others nearly
forty miles up the Thames.
I t is very common on the Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk
coasts. Specimens, too, have occurred inland in the first-named county,
at Leeds, though rarely, Huddersfield, Hcbdcn Bridge, and Barnsley,
by the margins of reservoirs and the course of canals. In Derbyshire
one near Melbourne, May the 25th., 1845. It has been met with
near Oxford. In Cambridgeshire it is found in the Isle of Fly during