. The birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire : a contribution to the natural history of the two counties . cords in theNaturalist, vol. ii. p. 75, that a shoemaker namedWrigginton, shot one of these Terns at Eton in 1825,and had it preserved there. In the spring of 1847, ^ good specimen of this birdwas shot by an Eton birdstufifer named Fisher, whileit was flying over the Thames between Surley Halland Eton Wick. A few years since, in autumn,during the prevalence of an equinoctial gale, , of Eton, shot a young bird of this species onthe river near Windsor; and he has in his collectionano
. The birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire : a contribution to the natural history of the two counties . cords in theNaturalist, vol. ii. p. 75, that a shoemaker namedWrigginton, shot one of these Terns at Eton in 1825,and had it preserved there. In the spring of 1847, ^ good specimen of this birdwas shot by an Eton birdstufifer named Fisher, whileit was flying over the Thames between Surley Halland Eton Wick. A few years since, in autumn,during the prevalence of an equinoctial gale, , of Eton, shot a young bird of this species onthe river near Windsor; and he has in his collectionanother, an adult bird, which was procured in thesame neighbourhood some years later. A male BlackTern was killed by Mr. George Lillywhite, of EtonWick, in the last week of September, 1866, as it wasflying along the banks of the Thames just aboveSurley ; and an Eton taxidermist, named Hall,informed me that he had received several of thesebirds for preservation, most of which had been pro-cured in the spring. The Black Tern has occasionally been observed nearMaidenhead and Datchet. Towards the end of May,. THE BLACK TERN. Sterua nigrd. LARID^. 151 1866, five Terns were seen by Mr. Briggs, of Cook-ham, flying about the river Thames, near Woburn,and two of these were shot, and are now in the col-lection of Mr^R. B. Sharpe. They proved to be a maleand female of the Black Tern, and the ovary of thelatter contained minute eggs. Mr. Gould happenedto be on the river, near Maidenhead, the same after-noon, and killed the three remaining birds; which, ashe told me, were curiously enough, all of differentspecies, the Common, Arctic, and Black Terns. Theseare now in the possession of Mr. Grefell, of TaplowCourt, to whom Mr. Gould presented them. Black-headed Gull {Lams ridibwidns). Abird of this species in the fully adult plumage, is surelyone of the prettiest of the Laridce. For the last fouryears I have observed small parties of them on theThames in spring, and a few are again observed inaut
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