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Place and
Manners.
-under parts and tail white, the laft forked: the quills are alh-coloured,
except the firft and fecond, which are very long, and
brown : legs faffron-colour : claws black.
Male and female alike.
This is a Ruffian bird : comes from beyond the Black Sea, in
fpring, in pairs; and is firft feen about one hundred werfts from
Weronetz. Builds in June. Lays, for the moft part, two eggs.
Frequents the water like other Terns. Flies high,, and fwift; and
is difficult to be fbot, except the fportfman firft fhoots one of
fome other fpecies, which, being thrown up into the air, entices
the bird to come nearer * . It returns from whence it came in
autumn.
22.
4- BLACK, T.
Sterna fiffipes, Lin. Syft. i. p. 228. y.—Brun. N° 153»
Larus merulinus, Scop. Ann. i. N° 108 ?
L’Hirondelle-de-Mer noire, ou l’Epouvantail, Brif. Orn. xi. p. 211. 4.—
Buf. Oif. viii. p. 341.—-PL Enl. 333.
Scare-Crow, Rati Syn. p. 131..A. 3.— Will. Orn. p. 353» ph 68.
Larus niger fidipes, &c. Rati Syn. p. 131. 4. A. 6.
Cloven-footed "Gulls, Will. Orn. p. 354. § 4. 6. pi. 78.
Black T$rn, Br. Zool. N° 256.— Aril. Zool. N° 45°.
Br. Muf. Lev. Mwf.
Description. C I Z E between the common and leffer Terns: length ten inches:
breadth twenty-four: weight two ounces and a half. Bill
black: head, neck, and body, footy black: back, wings, and
tail, deep alh-colour; the laft lefs forked than in either of the
others : vent and under tail coverts white : the outer feather of
* This praftice is often ufed by the Britijh fpecies, as well as thofe of the
Gull tribe*
the
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the taif edged With white : legs dufky red. The male has a fpot
©£ white under the chin.
This, like the other Britijh fpecies, frequents our Ihores in Place an»
fummer ; but is likewife very common a great way up many Manners.
rivers, and lèverai of our fens : now and then feen about reedy
places, and neglefted fifo-■ ponds. The eggs are three or four in
number, of a dirty greenilh colour,, fpotted with black, and fur-
rounded with a band of black about the middle; thefe it lays
among the reeds, in the fens on other marlhy places- The food
conflits of infebls* and fmall fijh, the addrefs.' to procure which t
is much the fame as in others of this genus- It- is called, about
Cambridge the Car-Swallow. On the continent it is found pretty
far north : v-ery numerous in Siberia, and about the fait lakes o f
the defarts of Tartary. In Europe, as far as Iceland. Suppofed to
inhabit- Hudfon’s Bay f ; and is probably the fame which was feen
in vaft flocks,, beyond lat. 41. north, long. 47. W. by Mr. Kalmy
Ibmewhat fouth of the bank of Newfoundland.%•
Sterna nigra, Lin.Syß. i..p. 227. 3,— Faun, Sutc. N° 159*— Müller, N° 171. 22.
— Georgi Reife, p. 171. V ar, A,
L’Hirondelle-de-Mer à tête noire, ou le Gachet, Brij. Orn. vi. p. 214. 5*
— Bnf. Oif, viii. p. 342.
H I S is a trifle bigger than the laft: length nine inches and description,
a half. Bill black.: the head, neck, and breaft, the fame:,
round the eyes a few grey feathers: back, rump, fcapulars, and
* Beetles and Maggots found in the ftomach of one.— Will. p. 354.
•f Ar£l. Zool.
t Kalm fays, it was rather darker than the common Sea-S-wallow; the flocks
$onfifted of fome hundreds, and fometimes fettled on the Ihip.— Trav. i. p. 23.
7 upper.