BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Young. — Forehead and anterior half (more or less) of lores (some- 

 times superciliary region also), sides of head and neck, and entire 

 under parts immaculate white; crown, occiput, and nape nearly 

 uniform dusky, or grayish white spotted or streaked "with dusky; 

 general color of upper parts light bluish gray, the hindneck clouded 

 with dusky brown (the feathers white beneath surface), the scapulars 

 broadly dusky subterminally and margined terminally with cinna- 

 mon or cinnamon-buffy, the proximal wing-coverts sometimes with 

 indistinct transverse spots of dusky brownish; otherwise as in adults, 

 but bill dusky or dark brownish. 



Downy young. — "Down at the base of tlie bill black, forehead 

 ruddy fawn-color; upper part paler fawn, mottled and streaked with 

 black; under parts white, except the throat, which is sooty black for 

 a few days."" 



Adult maie.— Wing, 221-249 (231.5); tail, 80-88 (84.7); exposed 

 culmen, 28-30 (29); tarsus, 19-22 (20.7) ; middle toe, 18.5-20.5 (19.7).'' 



Adult female. — Wing, 219; tail, 83; exposed culmen, 25.5; tarsus, 

 21.5; middle toe, 20." 



Southwestern, central, and southern Europe, eastward to China; 

 southward over Africa, India, Malay Archipelago, etc., to Australia; 

 accidental in Barbados. Lesser Antilles. 



Sterna leucopareia Temminck, Man. d'Orn., ed. 2, ii, 1820, 746 (Hungary; ex 

 Natterer, manuscript); iv. 1840, 463.— Meyer, Taschenb., iii, 1822. 189. — 

 BoiE, Isis, 1822, 563.— Breiim, Beitr. Vogelk., iii, 1822, 674; Lehrb., 1824, 

 694.— Werner, Atlas, PalmipMes, 1828, pis. 10, 11.— Savi, Orn. Tosc, iii, 

 1831, 92.— Gould, Birds Europe, v, 1837, pi. 424 and text. — Naumann, Vog. 

 Deutschl., X, 1840, 168, pi. 255.— Schinz, Europ. Faun., 1840, 374.— Cres- 

 PON, Faun. MMd., ii, 1844, 118 (breeding in August). — Schlegel, Rev. 

 Crit., 1844, p. cxxxi.— Ruppell, Syst. Ueb., 1845, 139 (Lower Egypt). — 



« Saunders, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxv, 1896, 14. 

 ^ Four specimens, 

 c One specimen. 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Two adult males from Europe 



Two adult males from British East Africa (August) 



Two adult males from northern India (Kashmir) {H. I. indica). 



Two adult males from Philippines (Mindanao, May) (//. I. 



iwinhoei) 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Egypt 



One adult female from Kashmir ( H. I. indica) 



One adult female from northern China (Tientsin) (if. I. swin- 



hoei) 



Three adult females from Philippines (Manila Harbor, May) 



( H. I. swinhoei) 



40017— 19— Bull. 50, pt S 35 



20 



19.5 



las 



19.7 



20 

 18 



18.5 



18.5 



