Place.
except the three outer feathers, are black : the tail is forked in
fliape, and lhorter than the wings, when clofed, by an inch : legs
brown: webs orange : claws black. In fome there is a flight
mixture of brown on the head.
Inhabits Chriflmas IJland, and other parts of the South Seas.
Seen alfo off the ifland of St, Helena•
18.
4- LESSER T.
Sterna minuta, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 228. 4.—Scop. Ann, i. N° no.
La petite Hirondelle-de-Mer, Brif. Orn, vi. p. 206. 2. pi. 19. fig. 2,-—
Buf, O f viii. p. 337.— PI. Enl. 996.
Lefler Sea-Swallow, Rail Sjn. p. 131. A. 2.—Will. Orn. p. 353. pi. 68.-—
Alb in, ii. pi. 90.
Lefler Tern, Br. Zool. N° 155. pi. 90.*—Arbi. Zool. N° 449»
Br. Muf. - Lev. Muf.
Description. J ^ E N G T H eight inches and a half: breadth nineteen and a
half: weight little more than two ounces. Bill yellow,
tipped with black: irides dulky: forehead, to the crown,
white: the reft of the head and nape black: through the eye,
from the bill, a ftreak of the'fame; except this, the fides of the
head, the neck, all the under parts, and tail, of the pureft
white: back and wings pale grey': quills deeper grey, and much
longer than the ta il: legs yellow : claws black.
Place and
^Manners. This feems to have much the fame haunt and manners as the
common Tern ; but is not met with fo far north, nor does it appear
to be fo numerous a fpecies: it however breeds on many of
our fhores. The egg is an inch and a half in length, of a dirty
yellowifh brown, dalhed all over with reddilh blotches. Out of
thefe realms it is found in the foutbern parts of Ruffia, about the
Black and Cafpian Seas; and in Sibiria, about the river Irtifch.
In America feen, during the fummer, about New Tork.
Br. Muf.
T E N G T H eight inches. Bill black; one inch and a quarter
in length, and moderately ftout: noftrils pervious ; head,
neck, rump, and under parts, white: acrofs the top of the head
dufky black, taking in the eye on each fide, and palling downwards
in a point at the nape of the neck : back cinereous; fome
of the feathers edged with pale tawny : wing coverts fine pale
afh-colour, dalhed down the middle of each lhaft with dufky :
quills fine cinereous grey : tail Ihort, very little forked, paler
than the quills : legs (lender, orange: claws crooked, and
black.
Inhabits China. It feems much allied to the laft.
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CHINESE T.
Description.
Place.
Lev. Muf.
T E N G T H feven inches and a half. Bill one inch and a half,
black: forehead dirty buff: back, wings, and tail, dirty pale
alh-colour : under parts grey : quills white: tail forked : legs
pretty long, dufky black: webs orange. We obferyed a fpecimen
of this which was full nine inches in length.
Inhabits Chriflmas IJland.
Sternametopoleucos, A. C. Petr. xv. p. 475. N° 17. t. 22. (S. G. Gmelin.)-
g IZ E of the Little Tern: length eight inches and a quarter.
Bill one inch and one third long, red at the bafe, then
yellow, with the tip black : irides livid : the forehead white :
the temples, the whole of the head, and neck, black : back hoary:
10 under
SOUTHERN T.
Description.
Place.
21.
HOODED T.
Descriptions
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