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CAYENNE T.
La grande Hirondelle de Mer de Cayenne, Buf. Oif, viii. p. 346.— PI.
Enl. 988.
DESCRIPTION. J ^ E N G T H fixteen inches. Hind part of the head black:
upper parts of the plumage grey, the feathers edged with
pale rufous: the under parts of the body white.
Place* Inhabits Cayenne.
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SURINAM T.
Greater. Tern, Hi/. de Surin. ii. p. 187.
g I Z E not mentioned. Bill, head, neck, and breall, black :
D escription,
back, wings, and tail, alh-colour : belly and thighs dirty
white : legs and feet red : claws .black.
Place. Inhabits Surinam; but is often feen two hundred leagues from
land. Its food in common isfijh, and it will often purfue the lefier
ones in order to make them difgorge what they have fwallowed,
which it feizes on as lawful prey*. Wehaye feen fuch a kind of
bird in a colleftion which came from Cayenne, which differed only
in having the vent rufous. This laft was the fize of the Noddy.
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L ’Hirondelle de Mer a grande envergure, Buf. Qi/ . viii. p. 345.
Egg-Bird, For/. Voy./i. p. 113.—Cook’s Voy. i. p. 66. 275.
Noddy, Damp. Voy. iii. part 1. p. 142. pi. in p. 123. fig. 5. — Hawke/.
Voy. iii. p. 652.“
Sooty Tern, Ari7. Zool.-N° 447»
Lev. Mu/.
Description* g I Z E of the' Noddy: length fixteen inches. Bill two inches
and a quarter, black : the forehead is white, palling on each
• Were it not for this f circumftance proving it to be a bird of a larger
fize, we Ihonld conclude it to be the black Tertit or its variety.
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fide to the upper part of the eye, where it ends in a point: through
the eye a ftreak of black, palling to the hind head : the crown,
nape, hind part of the neck, and all the upper.parts, wings, and tail,
are black : the under parts, from the chin, white, palling a little
backwards at the lower part of the neck : the under wing coverts,
and inner ridge of the wing, white: quills dark greyilh black :
tail forked 5 the outer web of the exterior feather white, except
juft at the tip : the fhafts of both quills and tail are white beneath:
legs black.
This fpecies feems pretty far fpread, being met with in various Place
parts by our voyagers. Sir AJht$n Lever received it from New
York, from whence alfo I faw one in the colleftion of Colonel
Davies j and in another colleftion a third, which came from
Cayenne. In the ifland of Afcenfton, they are in prodigious numbers.
Dumpier met with them off the eoaft of New Holland, and
in great plenty in the Roca iflands, near Tortuga *, where he has
feen the neftsj and our late circumnavigators, between New
South Wales and New Guinea, where one of thefe fettled on the
rigging f . It alfo fometimes ftrays farther fouth, as it has been
feen in lat. 48. 38 J. Moll Tailors agree that this, and others of
the Noddy tribe, feen at fea, (hew the vicinity of land, and that
they feldom go above feventy or eighty leagues from its but
Capt. Cook fays, this mark is not always to be relied on §. The
fpecimen in my colleftion came from Chrijlmas Ijland, where it is
gregarious. It lays a Angle egg upon the bare ground, in the
month of December, making no neft.
•Damp. Voy. vol. iii. -part i . p. 143.— vol. i.p. 53. :+ Ha-wit/.Voy.m-f.^i.
\ Torft,'Voy. i. p< 1 ly.— Geoi’s Voy. i. p. 66. § Fcyi i..p. VSZ
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