in the front of her hat, the sides of which were respectively
adorned with about half of a West-African Glossy
Starling and the wing of a Kingfisher. Let us hope
that this fair one may have been brought to a sense of
decency, as have many others of her sex, through the
praiseworthy exertions of the Ladies' Society for the
Protection of Birds.
I have met with this Tern at various seasons on all
parts of the Mediterranean shores, and found it breeding
on the great lagoons of Sardinia.
