Place.
upper wing coverts, afh-colour: lower part of the bread, belly,
thighs, under wing coverts, and vent, white : quills deeper coloured
at the ends : tail as the quills j but the outer one on each
4 fide white on the outer web, margined with alh-colour: lhape of
the tail a little forked: legs of a dull red: claws black»
Said to inhabit various parts of Europe j but we do not recol-
le£t to have feen the bird. It is moft likely a variety of the laft,
as we have obferved more or lefs white between the legs of fome
fpecimens.
23.
BROWN T.
Brown Tern, Rati Syn. p. 131. A. 15.—Will. Or», p. 352.—Br. Zoo1. ii.
N° 253.
Description. “ 'T 'H E whole under fide-is white; the upper brown : wings
“ partly brown partly alh-colour: the head black: the
“ tail not forked. Thefe birds fly in companies,.’’ Such is the
defcription of Ray and Willughby, from which no certainty can
be drawn. It is probably, from the circumftance of the tail not
being forked, a young bird; but whether of the Tern or Gull
kind yet remains in obfcurity.