. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARIDiE. 639. THE GULL-BILLED TERN. Sterna anglica, Montagu. This species was first made known by Montagu, from specimens shot in Sussex, and, unaware that it was a mere visitor to our shores, he bestowed upon it the inappropriate name of anglica. Since the date of his discovery, examples have been obtained as far north as Blackpool in Lancashire and the vicinity of Leeds in York- shire ; in Norfolk no fewer than ten have been taken, and several have occurred in Kent, three in Sussex, and one each in Hants, Devon, Cornwall and Scilly: almost all
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARIDiE. 639. THE GULL-BILLED TERN. Sterna anglica, Montagu. This species was first made known by Montagu, from specimens shot in Sussex, and, unaware that it was a mere visitor to our shores, he bestowed upon it the inappropriate name of anglica. Since the date of his discovery, examples have been obtained as far north as Blackpool in Lancashire and the vicinity of Leeds in York- shire ; in Norfolk no fewer than ten have been taken, and several have occurred in Kent, three in Sussex, and one each in Hants, Devon, Cornwall and Scilly: almost all of them in spring or summer. A record from Ireland is the result of an erroneous identification. It is not remarkable that this widely-distributed Tern should occasionally visit England, seeing that it annually nests on the Island of Sylt and a few spots on the west coast of Denmark. In the Netherlands, Central Europe, and the north of France, it is only of accidental occurrence, but it breeds at the mouth of the Rhone, and abundantly in Spain on the sand-banks between Cadiz and the Portuguese frontier ; while, though chiefly a migrant in Italy, it nests on the salt-lagoons of Greece, Asia Minor, and the Black and Caspian Seas. In similar situations it is plentiful from Morocco to Egypt, and in the Red Sea; in Asia it is found in summer as far north as the Hoang-ho valley in Mongolia, and also breeds on the islands of the Persian Gulf. In the cold season it visits India and Ceylon, as well as Southern China and the Eastern Archipelago; while in the last the northern birds meet with individuals of a slightly. 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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