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Title: The birds of Europe
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Gould, John, 1804-1881
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, pub. by the author
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e Gull, and not quite identical with the billof Viralm, under which genus Mr. Stephens has arranged our Anglica in his Ornithological portion ofShaws Zoology, vol. xiii. p. 174. Numerous fishes were found in the stomachs of the examples of this bird killed in the Dukhun, and thisfact is in accordance with the remarks of Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano, who in hisObservations on the Nomenclature of Wilsons Ornithology, states that the habits of the two species ofTern, Sterna Anglica and S. aranea, are very different; the former is confined to the sea-shore, and feedssometimes on fishes, while the latter is generally found in marshes, and feeds exclusively on insects. The Gull-billed Tern is said to frequent, and even to be common on the eastern parts of the Europeancontinent, particularly during the summer, where it lays three or four oval-shaped olive-brown eggs, spottedwith two shades of darker brown. We have figured a bird in the summer plumage and of the natural size.
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o P I—i d un COMMON TERN. Sterna Hirundo, Linn. La Hirondelle-de-mer Pierre Garin. All the members of this interesting tribe inhabiting the British Islands are strictly migratory: severalspecies visit us for the purpose of breeding, while others, being inhabitants of more distant countries, are ofmore rare occurrence. The Common Tern, although not universally dispersed over our coasts, is nevertheless a very abundantspecies, being found in great numbers over the southern shores, but more sparingly over the northern, whichare almost exclusively inhabited by its near ally the Arctic Tern. It is now satisfactorily ascertained that the Common Tern does not extend its range to the American Con-tinent, and that its place is there supplied by another species, to which the Prince of Musignano has giventhe specific appellation of Wilsonii, in honour of the celebrated ornithologist by whom it was first described. How far the Common Tern is distributed over the Old Continent we have not satisf

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