. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARID^. 637. THE WHISKERED TERN. Hydrochelidon hybrida (Pallas). The Whiskered Tern has even a less northward range than the preceding species, and only wanders to our islands at long intervals. It was first recognized by Heysham, who selected the subject of the above illustration from some sea-birds which had been shot at Lyme in Dorsetshire towards the end of August 1836; in September 1839 one (in the Warren collection at the Dublin Museum) was obtained at the mouth of the Lififey; a third was killed, according to Mr. Southwell, near Hornby Ca
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARID^. 637. THE WHISKERED TERN. Hydrochelidon hybrida (Pallas). The Whiskered Tern has even a less northward range than the preceding species, and only wanders to our islands at long intervals. It was first recognized by Heysham, who selected the subject of the above illustration from some sea-birds which had been shot at Lyme in Dorsetshire towards the end of August 1836; in September 1839 one (in the Warren collection at the Dublin Museum) was obtained at the mouth of the Lififey; a third was killed, according to Mr. Southwell, near Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, in 1842 ; an adult female containing advanced ova was shot on Hickling Broad, Norfolk, on June 17th 1847, ^nd one was obtained at Dersingham in October 1890; an immature example was procured at the end of August 1851, near Tresco, in the Scilly Islands; an exhausted adult picked up on the water near Plymouth in May 1865 and presented to me by the late Mr. Gatcombe, is now in the British Museum; and Mr. Hart, of Christchurch, Hants, has an adult killed in June 1875. An old male, shot in Nithsdale, on May 28th 1894, is in the Edinburgh Museum. This Tern is a very rare straggler to Northern Germany, and seldom wanders up the valley of the Rhone, though it used to nest Sparingly in the delta of that river. Large numbers arrive by the middle of April to breed in the marshes of the south-west of Spain;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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