. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARID^. 635. THE WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN. Hydrochelidon leuc6ptera (Schinz). This species, which has a more south-easterly habitat than the Black Tern, is an irregular visitor to our shores on migration, especially during May and June. In those months a good many examples have been obtained in Norfolk, while others have occurred on the coasts of Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, northward in Yorkshire and Durham, and inland near Coventry. The first British specimen on record was, however, shot in Dublin Bay, in October 1841
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. LARID^. 635. THE WHITE-WINGED BLACK TERN. Hydrochelidon leuc6ptera (Schinz). This species, which has a more south-easterly habitat than the Black Tern, is an irregular visitor to our shores on migration, especially during May and June. In those months a good many examples have been obtained in Norfolk, while others have occurred on the coasts of Sussex, Hants, Dorset, Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, northward in Yorkshire and Durham, and inland near Coventry. The first British specimen on record was, however, shot in Dublin Bay, in October 1841, and I have examined a bird in full moult killed at Ilfracombe, North Devon, early in Novem- ber 1870; these being the only autumnal instances known to me. Five more have been obtained in Ireland, all in spring and south or west of Dublin. The White-winged Black Tern has only once been known to wander as far as Lund in Sweden, and its northern breeding-limits appear to be in the governments of Lublin and Siedlec in Poland, south of which it is by no means uncommon on some of the marshes of Central and South-eastern Europe. It probably nests in Sicily, as well as near Massaciuccoli and Venice on the mainland of Italy, which it also visits on migration ; it frequents the Camargue, ascending the valley of the Rhone to Savoy and Central France; and it passes along the east coast of Spain in considerable numbers, though seldom seen in the south-west and not recorded by Mr. Tait from Portugal. In Western Morocco it is little known, but it appears to breed in Algeria, Lower Egypt, Nubia, and perhaps. 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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