yellowish-white; the irides hazel! all the parts of the head
above the eyes black ; the feathers on the occiput elongated,
forming a loose plume which ends in a p o in t; cheeks, sides,
and bottom of the neck béhind white ; back and wings ash-
grey, the ends of the tertials almost white ; the- longest primary
slate-grey, with a strong and broad white shaft, the
next two or three primaries eacha little, lighter in èÜfmr than
the first, and diminishing iff colour in succession till they become
of thé same tint as the-wingrcoverts; the tail white
and forked; ychinj throat, neck.-in front, breast* and alb|the
undèr .surface of-the'body pure white ^legs*-toes, and th|cr
membranes black, .claws curVedahd black. The jwhole rlength
of the. bird,rtfrom the p o in t^ f .the beak-do the;‘énd o f the
longest tail-feather' fifteen inches. From the carpal joint.to
the end, of the longest quill-feather e lev en 'in ch e sth e first
quill-feather the longest? in the wing.
A young bird of thé year killed on the 10th of August is
about ten inches in length ;j,th'e!.upper mandible dark brown,
the under one pale brown at the base; forehead greyish-
^ h ite, top. of the head and the- occiput black; back and
smaller wing-coveicts ash-grey, varied with.^itfce browns greater
cotfeits ash-grey, quill-feathers bluish-grey, the inner margins
white, the outside quill-feather almost black, except the shaft
which is .white;,.-tail-feathers..varied with ash-grey and brown\
legs, toes, and membranes dark brpwn.
The young bird'figured in the illustration has thehhead
mottled with black, and white; the .back, wing-coverts and
tail-feathers varied witlrangular lines of black.; in>,thi$; state
as to plumage it is the-.striated Tern of some’authors.
Adult birds in winter have the head whitè,. and the rold
bird in my own collection, killed on the 10th of August, has
on the front of the head a ;^considerable 7 number of small
white feathers appearing among those which are black.
NATATORES. LARIDÆ.
T H E ROSEATE T E RN .
StertiH Dougallii, R^teahTerii^ ’* Moht.‘ Supp. Orriith. Difct. ’ ■
,, ,, BEwtGKi Biritj B h d s j v d l. iu p . 214.
L * _ * . H F lem. Brit# An. p.-143.
,, • ,, , Seley, Brit. Ornftli. vol. iî. p. 470.
; ■ ,, ,, J enyns, Bh't. V e rt, p.’ 2 6 5 .
• ,, ,, G.oiiiï>,.Birds of Europe, pt. x.
,, Hirondelle demer, Rougall, Temm. Man. dîOrnith, yol. ii. p. 738.
T he R oseate 3??ern was first discovered on two small
rocky islands, called Cumbrav, in the Firth of Clyde, by Dr.
Macdougall of Glasgow, who sent a specimen and particulars
to fCblonel Montagu, from which a figure and description
were : inserted ’in the Supplément to his Ornithological Dictionary,
published in Since that period this speciés
has been found .breeding at various stations frequented by
other Terns, and is ascertained to be, like them, a regular