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parts slightly variegated with the same. This evidently lasts for 

 only a short time in mature birds. 



Immature and young. The former like the above, with rather 

 more white and with a dark band on the upper wing-coverts ; bill 

 livid, feet yellowish brown. In the young the dark band is more 

 pronounced, the forehead and crown are greyish, and the entire 

 underparts are white ; the bill nearly black. 



Hah. Lower Red Sea, Mekran Coast, Arabian Sea, Laccadives 

 (breeding) ; Malabar Coast. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b, S imni-; c,d. 

 2 imm. sk. 



e. Ad. ; f. Imm. 



sk. 

 g. cJ ad. ; h, i. 



2 ad. ; k-m. 



5 imm. sk. 

 n. 5 ad. sk. 



Suakin, Red Sea. 



Karachi, April {Col. E. A. 



Butler). 

 Hurnee, near Bombay. 



Capt. R. H. PentoQ 



[P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Tweeddde Coll. 



South Konkan, Malabar Coast, Hume Coll. 

 April 25 {G. Vidal). 



Viziadroog, Malabar Coast, Hume Coll. 

 May 5. 



0, p, S imm. sk. Laccadive Is., Feb. 13 {J. Arm- Hume Coll. 

 strong). 



11. Sterna dougalli. 



The Roseate Tern. 



? Larus polo-condor, Sparrm. litis. Carh. ii. fasc. iii. no. 83 (1788 : 

 Polo-Condor Island *) ; of. Smidev. Kritisk Sparrm. p. 13 (1857). 



? Polo-Condor Gull, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supj^l. ii. p. 332 (1801). 



? Larus pulo-condor, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. Ixviii (1801) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. iii. p. 6.54 (1846). 



Sterna dougalli, Mont. Oi-n. Diet. Suppl. fig. [no pagination] 1813; 

 Leach, Syst. Cat. M. ^-c. Brit. Mus. p. 41 (1816); Cuv. Regne 

 An., Ois. p. 344, Atlas, pi. 93 (1817) ; Vieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. 

 xxxii. p. 174 (1819) ; Te7nm. 3Ian. d'Orn. ed. 2, p. 738 (1820) ; 

 Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 563 ; Meyer, Taschenb. iii. p. 187 (1822) ; 

 Brehm, Beitr. Vogelk. iii. p. 673 (1822) ; Vieill. Enc. Meth. i, 

 p. 349 (1823) ; Brehn, Lehrb. p. 686 (1824) ; Stejyh., in Shaics 

 Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 1, p. 153 (1826) ; Werner, Atlas, Palmijiedcs, 

 pi. 5 (1828); Vieill. Faune Fran(;., Ois. p. 399, pi. 161. fig. 1 

 (1828) ; Fleming, Br. An. p. 143 (1828) ; Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. 

 p. 779 (1831); Lesson, Traite, p. 621 (1831 : Bengal); Savi, Om. 

 Tosc. iii. p. 93 (1831) ; Selby, Brit. B. ii. p. 470, pi. 89. figs. 1 &2 

 (1833) ; Vieill. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 22.5, pi. 290 (1834) ; Kutfall, Man. 

 Orn. ii. p. 278 (1834) ; Jeiiyns, Man. Brit. Vertehr. p. 265 (1835) ; 

 Audub. Orn. Bioqr. iii. p. 296, pi. 240 (1835) ; Gould, B. Eur. v. 

 pi. 418 (1837) ; Bp. Camp. List B. Eiu: ^- N. Ainer. p. 61 (1838) ; 

 Audub. Synop. p. 320 (1839) ; Sehinz, Europ. Faun. p. .372 (1840) ; 

 El/ton, Cat. Brit. B. p. 55 (1836) ; Crespon, Orn. Gard, p. 473 

 (1840) ; Natim. Vog. Deutschl. x. p. 78, pi. 251 (1840) ; Temm. 

 Man. d'Orn. 2nd ed. 4me pte. p. 457 (1840) ; Seli/s-Lotigch. Faun. 

 Belg. p. 1.50 (1842) ; Audub. B. Amer. 8vo ed. vii. p. 112, pi. 437 

 (1844) ; Giraud, B. Long Isl. p. 351 (1844) ; Cabot, Pr. Bost. 



* A very young bird, little more than a fledgling ; tbe white edges to the 

 primaries indicate that it belongs to this species or to S. melanauchen. 



