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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 SOOTY TERN. Sterna ruLiGiN6sA, J. F. Gmelin. The specimen figured is said to have been shot in October 1852 at Tutbury, near Burton-on-Trent, and having been purchased by Mr. H. W. Desvceux, of Drakelow Hall, it was exhibited by Yarrell at a meeting of the Linnean Society in February 1853. Mr. J. E. Harting has stated in ' The Field' that he examined in the flesh an example killed on June 21st 1869, near Wallingford in Berkshire; while Mr. A. C. Foot of Bath sent me an adult, with the information that it was caught alive, after wet and windy weather, about three miles from that city, on October 4th or 5th 1885, and was seen in the flesh by the late Rev. Leonard Blomefield as well as by the Librarian of the Museum. Other birds recorded by this name have proved to be Black Terns. On the Continent, this species has been noticed as a wanderer on three occasions. Naumann states that one was obtained near Magdeburg; Degland and Gerbe mention an adult male, now in the Lille Museum, taken in an exhausted state near Verdun, on June isth 1854; and a third, now in the Museum at Florence, was captured on October 28th 1862 in Piedmont, in a trout-net. The Sooty Tern has been known to occur about a dozen times as far north as the New England States, and it occasionally visits the Bermudas; but it is not found in any numbers on the American sea-board above Florida and the Bahamas, though south- ward it is generally distributed throughout the West Indies, especially on the low islands known as ' Cays.' In the Pacific

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