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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE CASPIAN TERN. Sterna caspia, Pallas. This fine Tern, the largest member of the genus, is of more irregular appearance on the coast of England than might be expected, seeing that some of its breeding-places are at no great distance. According to an excellent summary of its occurrences by Mr. J. H. Gurney (Zool. 1887, p. 457), nine examples have been obtained— and others have been observed—on the coast of Norfolk between 1825 and i860 ; while eight have been killed, at various times and places, in Suffolk, Kent, Hants, Dorset, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire ; and Mr. E. Bidwell saw an individual near the Fame Islands on June 6th 1880. As regards Scotland, Mr. Oswin Lee states that he made a sketch of one of two birds noticed at the Findhorn bar on June 12th 1887. From Ireland there is as yet no record. As a wanderer the Caspian Tern has been obtained at Vagoe in the Faeroes on May loth 1887 (Feilden). It breeds in colonies on the sandy shores and islands of Sweden and Denmark, while a well- known haunt is (or was) Sylt, one of the North Frisian Islands ; but I believe that a few birds have nested still nearer to us, namely on the coast of Holland to the south of the Maas, for I saw six adults flying in pairs and evidently going out to fish, in the early dawn of 3 D

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