NODDY TEEN.
ANOUS STOLIDUS (Linn.).
Sterna stolida, Linn. S. N . i. p. 227 (1760); Hewitson, ii.
p. 486.
Megaloptcrus stolidus, Macg. v. p. 672.
Anoiis stolidus, Yarr. cd. 4, iii. p. 567.
As tins is a species with which I have no acquaintance
except in museums, I therefore quote from 'Yarrell'
to the effect that the only authentic record of its
capture in British territory was sent by the late William
Thompson to the ' Magazine of Zoology and Botany,'
and refers to two specimens that were said to have been
taken in the summer about 1830, between the Tuskar
Lighthouse and Dublin Bay by the captain of a vessel,
who brought them to Mr. William Massey, of the
Pigeon House, Dublin. One of these two birds is
now in the Science and Art Museum of that city.
The Noddy is of general distribution throughout the
tropics. An interesting account of its breeding-habits
is quoted at length from Audubon in the 4th ed. of
' Yarrell,'vol. iii. pp. 568-570; this quotation is followed
by another from a letter written to John Gould
by Mr Gilbert, who collected for him in Western