. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARID^. 655. THE NODDY TERN. Angus st6udus (Linnaeus). Two examples of this pelagic species are recorded by Wm. Thompson (Mag. Zool. & Bot. i. p. 549) as having been obtained between the Tuskar Lighthouse and the Bay of Dublin, about the year 1830, and one of these is in the Science and Art Museum of the above capital. Some later reports of birds which were " identified on the wing " as belonging to this species, either refer to the Arctic Skua or are unworthy of serious consideration. In 'The Zoologist,' for 1897, p. 510, is a rec
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARID^. 655. THE NODDY TERN. Angus st6udus (Linnaeus). Two examples of this pelagic species are recorded by Wm. Thompson (Mag. Zool. & Bot. i. p. 549) as having been obtained between the Tuskar Lighthouse and the Bay of Dublin, about the year 1830, and one of these is in the Science and Art Museum of the above capital. Some later reports of birds which were " identified on the wing " as belonging to this species, either refer to the Arctic Skua or are unworthy of serious consideration. In 'The Zoologist,' for 1897, p. 510, is a record of a specimen said to have been shot " on the Dee marshes about six years ; The Noddy is, like the Sooty Tern, of general distribution throughout the tropics; some of its best known breeding-grounds being in the Tortugas group off the coast of Florida, the Bahamas, and many of the ' Cays' of the West Indies, as well as on both sides of Central America. In the Atlantic it was found by the ' Chal- lenger ' Expedition residing as far south as the storm-beaten Inac- cessible Island, off Tristan da Cunha; while in the Pacific it occurs from Mexico to the Galapagos group. On the islands and coasts of Polynesia and Australia it is found breeding in most of the localities mentioned when treating of the Sooty Tern, though often slightly apart from that species; and it occurs throughout the inter- tropical Asian and African seas, breeding in the Laccadives, the islands of the Red Sea, St. Helena, Ascension, and in other places. Contrary to the habit of typical Terns, this and most of the. 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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